US Congress Senate Bill 1001 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.)

Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017

Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1838 (Same As) 2017-04-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB6138 (Related) 2018-07-25 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1001/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1001/BILLS-115s1001is.pdf