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HR 7067 110th Congress House

Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the development of quality measures for inpatient hospital services, to implement a performance-based… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the development of quality measures for inpatient hospital services, to implement a performance-based payment methodology for the provision of such services under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 25, 2008 See on congress.gov
Health Hospital careHospitalsMedicarePeer review organizations (Medicine)
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 25, 2008
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 Latest action September 25, 2008

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008 - 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 and statistically valid 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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7067: Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-7067/
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"H.R. 7067: Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-7067/.
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H.R. 7067, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-7067/.
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