I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2043 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the continued 
access of Medicare beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 28, 2015 
Mr. OLSON (for himself, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. ROSKAM, and Mr. NUNES) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure 
the continued access of Medicare beneficiaries to diag-
nostic imaging services, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Diagnostic Imaging 
Services Access Protection Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Significant reimbursement cuts to the Medi-
care physician fee schedule should be based on de-
tailed empirical analysis data. 
(2) On multiple occasions since 2011, Congress 
has requested the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services (CMS) to provide the data used to establish 
its 2012 multiple procedure payment reduction to 
the professional component of imaging services. 
(3) CMS never provided the requested data to 
Congress. 
(4) Enactment of section 220(i) of Public Law 
113–93 on April 1, 2014, mandates the disclosure of 
CMS data used to determine its 2012 multiple pro-
cedure payment reduction to the professional compo-
nent of imaging services. 
(5) CMS acknowledged its responsibility to dis-
close this data in the Calendar Year 2015 Medicare 
Physician Fee Schedule Notice of Proposed Rule 
Making (NPRM) released on July 11, 2014, as well 
as in a letter from the Administrator on August 18, 
2014. 
(6) To date, CMS has not complied with the 
statutory mandate provided for in section 220(i) of 
Public Law 113–93. 
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SEC. 3. MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR IMAGING SERVICES. 
Section 1848(b)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395w–4(b)(4)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) ELIMINATION
OF
APPLICATION
OF 
MULTIPLE
PROCEDURE
PAYMENT
REDUC-
TION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary 
shall not apply a multiple procedure pay-
ment reduction policy to the professional 
component of imaging services— 
‘‘(I) furnished on a date that is 
more than 60 days after the date of 
the enactment of this subparagraph 
and in the year in which this subpara-
graph is enacted; or 
‘‘(II) furnished in any subsequent 
year that is prior to a year in which 
the Secretary conducts and publishes, 
as part of the Medicare Physician Fee 
Schedule Proposed Rule for a year, 
the empirical analysis described in 
clause (ii). 
‘‘(ii) 
EMPIRICAL
ANALYSIS
DE-
SCRIBED.—The 
empirical 
analysis 
de-
scribed in this clause is an analysis of the 
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