US Congress House Bill 270 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 31-7-1)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in specifying the electronic health record (EHR) reporting period under EHR electronic health record technology incentive payment programs under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to continue through 2015 (in the case of eligible professionals) and FY2015 (in the case of eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals) to permit the use of a three-month quarter EHR reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use without regard to the payment year or the stage of meaningful use criteria involved.

Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015

Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]
Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Aaron Schock [R-IL]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]
Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH]	Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]	Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]
Rep. Evan Jenkins [R-WV]	Rep. French Hill [R-AR]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]
Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]
Rep. David Rouzer [R-NC]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-01-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-01-12	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-01-12	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-01-12	House	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.
2015-01-12	House	Introduced in House

SB2822 (Related) 2016-04-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB5001 (Related) 2016-04-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/270/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr270/BILLS-114hr270ih.pdf