Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 17, 2019)
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
This bill 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.)
What just happenedSep 18, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseSep 17, 2019
- Sep 18, 2019Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Sep 17, 2019Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Sep 17, 2019IntroReferralH11100
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 - Sep 17, 2019IntroReferralH11100
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 - Sep 17, 2019IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 17, 2019IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House