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Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019

Introduced: February 14, 2020 Introduced by: Larson, John B. Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov
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Sep 18, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 17, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 17, 2019
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.
Sep 17, 2019
Introduced in House
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Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019

This bill establishes and modifies certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services.

Specifically, the bill (1) requires the payment system for ASC services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department (OPD) services; (2) revises 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) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 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, the CMS 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.)

What's happening now September 18, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 16
All 16 Democratic 2 Republican 7
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Smucker, Lloyd
Pennsylvania · May 1, 2020
Stivers, Steve
· May 1, 2020
Palazzo, Steven
· Feb 14, 2020
Marchant, Kenny
· Feb 6, 2020
Roe, David
· Feb 6, 2020
Tipton, Scott
· Feb 6, 2020
 D
Bonamici, Suzanne
Oregon · Feb 5, 2020
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Jan 29, 2020
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Schweikert, David
Arizona · Jan 29, 2020
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Buchanan, Vern
Florida · Jan 28, 2020
Walorski, Jackie
· Jan 28, 2020
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Bilirakis, Gus M.
Florida · Jan 14, 2020
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Westerman, Bruce
Arkansas · Oct 29, 2019
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Cole, Tom
Oklahoma · Oct 11, 2019
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Steube, W. Gregory
Florida · Oct 11, 2019
Nunes, Devin
· Sep 17, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4350: Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-4350/
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"H.R. 4350: Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-4350/.
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