Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013

Summary

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments for physician services, to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services until the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register: (1) an analysis of the information used in the final rule to implement the physician fee schedule in 2013 to determine what, if any, efficiences exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day; and (2) detailed information on which activities in the vignettes in such rule were assigned specified reduction percentages, how such percentage reductions for the pre-, intra-, and post-service work were determined and calculated, and the clinical aspects that went into those decisions.

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Timeline

1. 20 March 2013

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 20 March 2013

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

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Sponsors

• Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Cowan, William M. [D-MA] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] · R · Cosponsor
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