S 2648
116th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Performance measurement
Rural ACO Improvement Act
Introduced: October 21, 2019
Introduced by:
Cortez Masto, Catherine
Democratic
· Nevada
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 21, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 21, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural ACO Improvement Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to exclude certain components from a methodology used under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The program enables accountable care organizations (ACOs) to receive payments for savings stemming from care coordination and management.
Specifically, the bill requires the CMS to exclude an ACO's assigned Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries from certain regional adjustments to the ACO's benchmark for savings determinations, and to otherwise ensure that an ACO is not in a less favorable financial position due to its share of assigned beneficiaries in the region.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1