HR 3406
116th Congress
House
Health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Nursing
Performance measurement
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve measurements under the skilled nursing facility value-based purchasing program under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
Introduced: June 21, 2019
Introduced by:
Neal, Richard E.
Democratic
· Massachusetts
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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
Jun 24, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 21, 2019
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Jun 21, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
This bill modifies requirements relating to the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) value-based purchasing program, which provides incentive payments to SNFs based on their quality of care.
Currently, all Medicare SNFs are included in the program, and their quality of care is determined based on a hospital readmissions measure. The bill excludes from the program SNFs for which there is not a minimum number of applicable cases or measures, as set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for the performance period. Additionally, the bill allows the CMS to apply up to 10 additional quality measures, including measures relating to patient safety and care coordination.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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