[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 470 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 470

   To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare 
    exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for 
                   hospitals, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 16, 2023

  Mr. Lankford (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Young, Mr. 
 Cotton, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Paul, Mr. Cornyn, 
 Mr. Cruz, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Budd) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare 
    exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for 
                   hospitals, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Patient Access to Higher Quality 
Health Care Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF HEALTH CARE REFORM PROVISIONS LIMITING MEDICARE 
              EXCEPTION TO THE PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN PHYSICIAN 
              REFERRALS FOR HOSPITALS.

    Sections 6001 and 10601 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 684, 1005) and section 1106 of 
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 
111-152; 124 Stat. 1049) are repealed and the provisions of law amended 
by such sections are restored as if such sections had never been 
enacted.
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