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Continuing Access to Hospitals Act of 2016 or the CAH Act of 2016
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to continue to instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2016.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission must report on the effect of extending this instruction on: (1) Medicare beneficiaries, and (2) hospital staffing needs.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5613 as passed House amended on Sep 21, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Sep 21, 2016
Continuing Access to Hospitals Act of 2016
Passed · Two-thirds required
420 Yea 0 Nay 11 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5613 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5613 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
3 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.