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S. Rept. 114-98 1 (2015-07-30)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxsqy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 177 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session SENATE 114-98 PREVENT INTERRUPTIONS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY ACT OF 2015 JULY 30, 2015.-Ordered to be printed Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on Finance, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 313] The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the bill (S. 313) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens arrangements under Medicare, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass. I. LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the bill (S. 313), to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens arrangements under Medicare, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass. Background and need for legislative action Under current law, physicians who are absent from their prac- tices (for reasons such as illness, pregnancy, vacation, or continuing medical education) may retain substitute physicians to take over their practices temporarily. The regular physician may bill and re- ceive payment for the substitute physician's services as though he/ she performed them; the regular physician generally pays the sub- stitute physician a fixed amount on a per diem or similar fee-for- time basis, with the substitute physician having the status of an independent contractor rather than of an employee. These sub- stitute physicians are generally called locum tenens physicians. 49-010

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