US Congress Senate Bill 3085 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on December 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-12-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes and modifies certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services. Specifically, the bill (1) requires the payment system for ASC services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department (OPD) services; (2) revises 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) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 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, the CMS 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 2019

Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]

Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-12-18	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB3433 (Related) 2019-06-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB4350 (Same As) 2019-09-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3085/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3085/BILLS-116s3085is.pdf