US Congress House Bill 1776 (Prior Session Legislation)

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March 30 2009 - 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 Braley, Bruce L.	Rep Kratovil, Frank, Jr.	Rep Holden, Tim	Rep Carney, Christopher P.
Rep Altmire, Jason	Rep Sestak, Joe	Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y.	Rep Pomeroy, Earl
Rep Payne, Donald M.	Rep Loebsack, David	Rep Levin, Sander M.	Rep Kind, Ron
Rep Israel, Steve	Rep Himes, James A.	Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr.	Rep Massa, Eric J. J.
Rep Connolly, Gerald E. "Gerry"	Rep Matheson, Jim

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

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN01776:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr1776ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr1776ih.pdf