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HR 1838 115th Congress House

Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 30, 2017 See on congress.gov
Health Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAdvisory bodiesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesHealth care quality
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 12, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 31, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 30, 2017
Introduced in House
Mar 30, 2017
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.
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 Latest action April 12, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.)

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 6138 Related bill ASC Payment Transparency Act of 2018
  • S 1001 Identical bill Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 29
All 29 Democratic 11 Republican 13
ROS-LEHTINEN, ILEANA
· Jul 10, 2018
 R
Buchanan, Vern
Florida · Jun 12, 2018
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Jun 6, 2018
 D
Bera, Ami
California · Dec 12, 2017
 R
Bilirakis, Gus M.
Florida · Nov 13, 2017
 R
Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"
Arkansas · Sep 26, 2017
 R
Cole, Tom
Oklahoma · Jun 21, 2017
 D
Frankel, Lois
Florida · Jun 21, 2017
 R
DesJarlais, Scott
Tennessee · Jun 15, 2017
 D
Bonamici, Suzanne
Oregon · Jun 13, 2017
 R
Westerman, Bruce
Arkansas · May 17, 2017
 R
Hudson, Richard
North Carolina · Apr 27, 2017
 R
Valadao, David G.
California · Apr 26, 2017
 R
Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Apr 25, 2017
 R
Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Apr 6, 2017
 R
Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Mar 30, 2017
Farenthold, Blake
· Mar 30, 2017
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Mar 30, 2017
Hensarling, Jeb
· Mar 30, 2017
JOHNSON, SAM
· Mar 30, 2017
Lance, Leonard
· Mar 30, 2017
 D
Larson, John B.
Connecticut · Mar 30, 2017
 D
Norcross, Donald
New Jersey · Mar 30, 2017
 D
Peters, Scott H.
California · Mar 30, 2017
 D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Mar 30, 2017
 R
Schweikert, David
Arizona · Mar 30, 2017
 R
Sessions, Pete
Texas · Mar 30, 2017
 D
Smith, Adam
Washington · Mar 30, 2017
 D
Veasey, Marc A.
Texas · Mar 30, 2017
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1838: Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1838/
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"H.R. 1838: Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1838/.
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H.R. 1838, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1838/.
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