Primary Health Services Enhancement Act

Primary Health Services Enhancement Act

This bill expands Medicare coverage to include physical therapy services provided by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5365 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5365

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare 
  Rural Health Clinic Services and Federally Qualified Health Center 
             Services to include physical therapy services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2021

   Mr. Kind (for himself, Ms. DeGette, Mrs. Walorski, and Mr. Bacon) 
 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 expand Medicare 
  Rural Health Clinic Services and Federally Qualified Health Center 
             Services to include physical therapy services.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Primary Health Services Enhancement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING MEDICARE RURAL HEALTH CLINIC SERVICES AND FEDERALLY 
              QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER SERVICES TO INCLUDE PHYSICAL 
              THERAPY SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1861(aa) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395x(aa)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking at the end 
                ``and'';
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                subparagraph (D); and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) such physical therapy services (as defined in 
                subsection (p)) furnished by a physical therapist, 
                and'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``subparagraphs (A) 
        and (B)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (A) through (C)''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``subparagraphs (A) 
        through (C)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (A) through (D)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to services furnished on or after January 1, 2022.
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