US Congress House Bill 1776 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: Introduced on March 30 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-03-30 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Pending: House Ways And Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make performance-based payments each fiscal year to hospitals that provide high quality inpatient hospital services to inpatients entitled to benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance). Requires the Secretary to select appropriate evidence-based, statistically valid, and sufficiently field tested quality measures of care furnished by hospitals in inpatient settings for evaluating hospital performance. Requires a utilization and quality control peer review organization to give priority of quality improvement assistance to low-performing hospitals. Directs the Secretary to establish a program under which a hospital seeking to improve the quality of inpatient hospital services based on the results of a performance evaluation may apply to the Secretary to receive quality improvement assistance from a private quality organization with expertise in supporting inpatient service quality improvement.

Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009

Rep. Jason Altmire [D-PA]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]	Rep. Christopher Carney [D-PA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Tim Holden [D-PA]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]
Rep. Frank Kratovil [D-MD]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Eric Massa [D-NY]
Rep. Jim Matheson [D-UT]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Earl Pomeroy [D-ND]
Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]	Rep. Joe Sestak [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-03-30		Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1776/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr1776/BILLS-111hr1776ih.pdf