Rural Equity Payment Index Reform Extension Act of 2006

HR 916/S 438 - Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal caps on Medicare outpatient therapy services; S 3516 - Rural Equity Payment Index Reform Extension Act, to extend the floor onthe work geographic index under the Medicare physician fee schedule; S 3677 - Medicare Independent Living Act, to eliminate the "in the home" restriction for Medicare coverage of devices to enhance the mobility of individuals with functional limitations, impairments, and disabilities; HR 5866 - Medicare Physican Payment Reform and Quality Improvement Act, to reform Medicare payment to health care professionals billing through the Medicare physician fee schedule; HR 3373/S 1405 - Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act, to extend until two years after passage of the bill the 50% compliance threshold used to determine if a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility; HR 3795/S 657 - to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services in order to recognize speech-language pathologists as suppliers under the Medicare program; Payment for physical therapist services under the Medicare physician fee schedule; Medicare skilled nursing facility payment for physical therapist services; Medicare "pay for performance"; Proposed quality standards for suppliers of durable medical equipment. HR 1333/S 647 - Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act, to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act ot authorize physical therapists to evaluate and treat Medicare beneficiaries without requirement of a physician referral;