Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017

HB 1838 Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017

US Congress 115th Congress

Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
HB-1838


About HB-1838

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.)

  

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Introduced 04/07/2017

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Votes for: 1 Votes against: 0

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History

Referred To The Subcommittee On Health.

04/12/2017

Referred To The Subcommittee On Health.

03/31/2017

Introduced In House

03/30/2017

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.

03/30/2017

Referred To House Energy And Commerce

03/30/2017

Referred To House Ways And Means

03/30/2017