The House of Representatives voted to repeal a provision in the healthcare law that would create the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member panel with responsibility for controlling Medicare cost growth.

The House voted 223-181 in support of the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2012, a bill that would repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision.

A report issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office found that repealing IPAB would increase spending by $3.1 billion from 2013 to 2022.

Critics of IPAB include the American Medical Association, which said in February that it supported the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act and the elimination of the IPAB provision.

“We applaud the House for voting to eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel which would have too little accountability and the power to make indiscriminate cuts that adversely affect access to healthcare for patients,” said AMA President-elect Dr. Jeremy Lazarus in a statement. “Ending the ongoing threat of drastic cuts from the physician payment formula and preventing new cuts from IPAB are important first steps to stabilize the Medicare system for patients.”