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HR 1776 111th Congress House Health Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Hospital care Medicare Performance measurement

Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009

Introduced: March 30, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 30, 2009
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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.


What's happening now March 30, 2009

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Himes, James A.
Connecticut · Jul 15, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1776: Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1776/
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"H.R. 1776: Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1776/.
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