H.R. 846: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013
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H.R. 846: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013
113th Congress · introduced 2013-02-27 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-02-27 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013
Plain 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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Official text
Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22] · 186 cosponsors
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Betty McCollum (D-MN), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Andy Harris (R-MD), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Ami Bera (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and 126 more.
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Words on this page, explained (3)
- Federal Register
- The official daily publication of the U.S. government for agency rules, proposed rules, public notices and presidential documents.
- Rulemaking
- The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
- Securities
- Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hr846.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hr>
Record fed-us-cong113-hr846 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113