SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Environment, Foreign Policy.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H7EEBA4C076024ED283BF46B1572F8AB4: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act.
- Section H7DB218BC8B2E4518B7955FA1493551C1: 2. Allowing Medicare payments for certain items and services furnished by off-campus outpatient departments of a provider to be determined under the...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Environment, Foreign Policy
Primary Purpose
This bill, SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Mr. Smith of Nebraska (for himself and Mr. McGovern) introduced …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
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