SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act

Summary

SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act This bill allows for payment under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services of certain items and services that are furnished at off-campus outpatient departments. Specifically, the bill allows for payment of items and services for which payments to physician specialists (under the Medicare physician fee schedule) did not exceed $2 million during the previous year.

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Timeline

1. 2 July 2020

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 2 July 2020

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 2 July 2020 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 2 July 2020

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 2 July 2020

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 2 July 2020

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Sponsors

• John Hoeven · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL] · D · Sponsor
• · ssfi00 · Standing

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