118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 7652Oversight of Medicare Billing Code Cost Act

To increase oversight and transparency with respect to Medicare billing codes.

Health
Introduced Mar 13, 2024
Last action Dec 17, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Mar 13, 2024
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Referred
Dec 17, 2024
E&C · Ways & Means
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill requires the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to report on the processes for adding, modifying, and removing billing codes under Medicare. The report must include recommendations for administrative and legislative changes that may improve the transparency and oversight of these processes. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must annually publish on its website a list of billing codes that were added under Medicare during the previous year, as well as the associated volume and expenditures for such codes.  

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 5 actions
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 15, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 13, 2024
Introduced in House
Mar 13, 2024
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Mar 13, 2024
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.