US Congress House Bill 4350 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-3)
Status: Introduced on September 17 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-09-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes and modifies certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services. Specifically, the bill (1) requires the payment system for ASC services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department (OPD) services; (2) revises quality reporting requirements to permit publicly available, side-by-side comparisons of quality measures for ASCs and OPDs in the same geographic area; and (3) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), when excluding requested procedures from the list of those approved to be performed in ASCs, to cite specified reasons for doing so. With respect to excluding procedures from the approved list for ASCs, the CMS may not cite as a basis for exclusion that a procedure can only be reported using an unlisted surgical procedure code. (Physicians sometimes use unlisted codes when performing new procedures or services if no existing code is adequately descriptive.)

Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019

Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA]	Rep. Greg Steube [R-FL]	Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]
Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]	Rep. Jackie Walorski [R-IN]
Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. David Schweikert [R-AZ]	Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. Lloyd Smucker [R-PA]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-09-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-09-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-09-17	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-09-17	House	Introduced in House

SB3085 (Same As) 2019-12-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4350/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr4350/BILLS-116hr4350ih.pdf