Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 30, 2017)
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) require the payment system for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department (OPD) services; (2) revise 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) require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 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, HHS 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.)
What just happenedApr 12, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 30, 2017
- Apr 12, 2017Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Mar 31, 2017Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Mar 30, 2017IntroReferralH11100
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.
Ways and Means Committee - Mar 30, 2017IntroReferralH11100-A
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.
- Mar 30, 2017IntroReferralH11100
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.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Mar 30, 2017IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 30, 2017IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House