Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023

Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023

This bill repeals provisions under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) that limit, for purposes of Medicare participation, self-referrals by newly constructed or expanded physician-owned hospitals.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 977

   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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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 2023

   Mr. Burgess (for himself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Babin, Mr. Cloud, Mr. 
Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hern, Mr. Dunn of 
   Florida, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
Jackson of Texas, Mr. Cole, Mr. Banks, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. 
  Ferguson, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Balderson, Mr. 
 Wenstrup, 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 repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare 
    exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for 
                               hospitals.

    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 ``Patient Access to Higher Quality 
Health Care Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF HEALTH CARE REFORM PROVISIONS LIMITING MEDICARE 
              EXCEPTION TO THE PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN PHYSICIAN 
              REFERRALS FOR HOSPITALS.

    Sections 6001 and 10601 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 684, 1005) and section 1106 of 
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 
111-152; 124 Stat. 1049) are repealed and the provisions of law amended 
by such sections are restored as if such sections had never been 
enacted.
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