Bills About Health Sponsored by Adrian Smith (R-Neb.)

Rep. Smith sponsored 13 bills about health in the 115th Congress (2017-18).

Introduced Number Title Cosponsors Cosponsor Party Latest Action
May 8, 2020 H.R.6792 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to simplify payments for telehealth services furnished by Federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. 10
Bipartisan
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.
May 16, 2019 H.R.2788 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize provisions relating to rural health clinics under Medicare. 33
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 7, 2019 H.R.1041 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services. 7
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
July 25, 2018 H.R.6502 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a program to allow qualified group practices to furnish certain items and services at qualified skilled nursing facilities to individuals entitled to benefits under part A and enrolled under part B of the Medicare program to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, and for other purposes. 10
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
April 13, 2018 H.R.5506 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct payment to physician assistants under the Medicare program for certain services furnished by such physician assistants. 2
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
April 13, 2018 H.R.5507 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services. 17
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
April 28, 2017 H.R.2224 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply budget neutrality on a State-specific basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas. 23
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 6, 2015 H.R.170 To extend the nonenforcement instruction for the Medicare direct supervision requirement for therapeutic hospital outpatient services insofar as it applies to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, to require a study of the impact on critical access hospitals and rural hospitals of a failure to extend such instruction, and for other purposes. 6
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 6, 2015 H.R.169 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services. 97
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 4, 2014 H.R.3991 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services. 91
Bipartisan
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Dec. 12, 2013 H.R.3769 To extend the nonenforcement instruction for the Medicare direct supervision requirement for therapeutic hospital outpatient services insofar as it applies to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, to require a study of the impact on critical access hospitals and rural hospitals of a failure to extend such instruction, and for other purposes. 3
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 12, 2013 H.R.2329 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a maximum period of 2 years for submissions of Medicare part B claims originally submitted by hospitals as Medicare part A claims and of 60 days for certain such submissions for one-day stays; and for other purposes. 23
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
July 17, 2009 H.R.3256 To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program. 3
All Republicans
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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