A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for more flexible billing arrangements in situations where physicians in the solo practice of medicine or in another group practice have arrangements with colleagues to "cover" their practice on an occasional basis.

Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit the reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician.