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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 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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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 October 21, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 5212 Related bill Accountable Care in Rural America Act
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Nov 20, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2648: Rural ACO Improvement Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2648/
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"S. 2648: Rural ACO Improvement Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2648/.
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S. 2648, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2648/.
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