HR 270
114th Congress
House
Health
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medicaid
Medicare
Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015
Introduced: January 12, 2015
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 30, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 16, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 12, 2015
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.
Jan 12, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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