[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 1188--A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
    improve access to emergency medical services and the quality and 
    efficiency of care furnished in emergency departments of hospitals 
    and critical access hospitals by establishing a bipartisan 
    commission to examine factors that affect the effective delivery 
    of such services, by providing for additional payments for certain 
    physician services furnished in such emergency departments, and by 
    establishing a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Working 
    Group, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and 
    Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for 
    a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
    case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
    jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


By Mr. GORDON of Tennessee (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Mr. McGovern, 
Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Graves, Mr. Wilson of Ohio, Mr. 
Langevin, Mr. Holt, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Hinojosa, 
Mr. Schiff, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Farr, Mr. Chandler, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. 
McCaul, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Klein of Florida, 
Mr. Dent, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
Boustany, Mr. Sires, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Capuano, Mr. 
Sensenbrenner, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Gerlach, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Souder, 
Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. Massa, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Hare, Ms. 
Schwartz, Mr. Bishop of New York, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Burgess, Mrs. 
Bachmann, Mr. Lance, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Price of North 
Carolina, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Castle, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Wilson of South 
Carolina, Mr. Wu, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, and Mr. Platts), H2834 
[25FE]

  Cosponsors added, H3835 [24MR], H4583 [21AP], H4915 [28AP], H5485 
  [12MY], H6014 [21MY], H6266 [4JN], H6904 [16JN], H7947 [9JY], H8495 
  [21JY], H9491 [14SE], H10520 [6OC], H15503 [16DE]