H.R. 3826: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payments under the Medicare Program to... (GovTrack.us)

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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payments under the Medicare Program to licensed health care practitioners for unscheduled telephone consultation services in the case that such payments are determined to be cost and quality effective.

Sponsor: Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL13]
Cosponsors: Lois Capps [D-CA23]

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Introduced Oct 15, 2009
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

Updates

Wal-Mart launches telemedicine business

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn in the Health Care Blog

The company will pilot telemedicine through retail clinics in Houston, and will be trademarked as Walk-In Telemedicine Health Care. Wal-Mart will be partnering with My Healthy Access and NuPhysicia, the private company that comes out of the long-successful telemedicine program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Telemedicine was been pioneered at U-T in Galveston over the past 10 years, and the program has global reach.

Instead of employing nurse practitioners, the medical model for this program will use paramedics working under the supervision of physicians via various scopes technologies -- electronic stethoscopes and beyond. NuPhysicia describes this process as, "interactive physician visits."

H.R. 6380: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare payments for unscheduled physician telephone consultation services

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payments under the Medicare program for unscheduled physician telephone consultation services in the case that such payments are determined to be cost and quality effective. Sponsor: Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL] Bill Text: Full Text Status: Introduced - Jun 26, 2008 The bill has been referred to the following committees: House Energy and Commerce House Ways and Means