Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Long title	An Act To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes
Nicknames	Permanent Doc Fix
Enacted by	the 114th United States Congress
Citations
Public Law	Pub.L. 114–10
Codification
Acts amended	Social Security Act, Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 2 by Michael C. Burgess (R-TX) on March 24, 2015 Passed the House on March 26, 2015 (392–37) Passed the Senate on April 14, 2015 (92–8) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 16, 2015

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, establishes a new way to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The reform is the largest in scale on the American health care system since the Affordable Care Act in 2010. It fixes the way Medicare doctors are reimbursed, fills in a funding gap and extends a popular children’s insurance program, CHIP. The $214 billion bill marked a moment of bipartisanship in a polarized US Congress.^[1]

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