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113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4067
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 10, 2014Received
AN ACT
To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for
outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural
hospitals through 2014.
1.
Extension of enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic
services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2014
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall continue to apply through calendar year 2014 the
enforcement instruction described in the notice of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services entitled Enforcement Instruction on Supervision Requirements for Outpatient Therapeutic Services in Critical
Access and Small Rural Hospitals for CY 2013, dated November 1, 2012 (providing for an exception to the restatement and clarification under the
final rulemaking changes to the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective
payment system and calendar year 2009 payment rates (published in the
Federal Register on November 18, 2008, 73 Fed. Reg. 68702 through 68704)
with respect to requirements for direct supervision by physicians for
therapeutic hospital outpatient services).
Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 2014.Karen L. Haas,Clerk