To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt certain requests by physicians for consultations by radiation oncologists from the limitation on certain physician referrals under Medicare.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exempt from the limitation on certain physician referrals any request by a physician, after a patient is admitted to a hospital, for a consultation by a radiation oncologist that results in an order for radiation therapy.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4127 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4127

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt certain 
requests by physicians for consultations by radiation oncologists from 
     the limitation on certain physician referrals under Medicare.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2012

 Mr. Heck (for himself, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Amodei, Ms. 
Berkley, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Benishek, Mr. Price of Georgia, and 
Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt certain 
requests by physicians for consultations by radiation oncologists from 
     the limitation on certain physician referrals under Medicare.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXEMPTING CERTAIN REQUESTS BY PHYSICIANS FOR CONSULTATIONS 
              BY RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS FROM THE LIMITATION ON CERTAIN 
              PHYSICIAN REFERRALS UNDER MEDICARE.

    Section 1877(h)(5)(C) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395nn(h)(5)(C)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``With respect to an individual admitted as an inpatient of a 
hospital, a request by a physician, after such admission, for a 
consultation by a radiation oncologist that results in an order for 
radiation therapy for such individual does not constitute a referral by 
a referring physician.''.
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