H.R. 1186: To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals.
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H.R. 1186: To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals.
112th Congress · introduced 2011-03-17 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-03-17 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals.
Plain summary
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to repeal the prohibition against Medicare participation by physician-owned hospitals that do not have a provider agreement by August 1, 2010, which nonetheless allows their Medicare participation under a rural provider and hospital exception to a specified ownership or investment prohibition if they meet certain requirements. Amends the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 to repeal provisions: (1) postponing from August 1, 2010, to December 31, 2010, the date by which physician-owned hospitals must have a provider agreement in order to participate in Medicare under a rural provider and hospital exception to the physician-ownership or -investment prohibition if they also meet certain requirements addressing conflicts of interest, bona fide investments, patient safety issues, and expansion limitations; and (2) modifying the expansion limitation imposed on such a rural hospital Restores related previous law amended or repealed by PPACA as if PPACA had not been enacted.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3] · 33 cosponsors
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Pete Sessions (R-TX), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Todd Young (R-IN), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Steve Womack (R-AR), James Lankford (R-OK)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112hr1186.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/hr>
Record fed-us-cong112-hr1186 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112