MATCH IT Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XXX of the Public Health Service Act to establish standards and protocols to improve patient matching.
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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.
Patient Matching And Transparency in Certified Health IT Act of 2025 or the MATCH IT Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a definition and standards for patient matching (i.e., the process of accurately matching patients with their medical records, including when records are exchanged between health care providers). It also requires the development of (1) a minimum data set for technology standards to increase patient matching, and (2) incentives for patient matching under Medicare.
Specifically, the bill requires HHS to develop a uniform definition and standards for patient matching to track patient match rates and document improvement over time. The definition and standards must account for certain situations, including duplicate records and multiple matches.
The bill also requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to adopt a minimum data set to help health care providers or health information systems achieve a patient match rate of 99.9%. The minimum data set and related standards must be incorporated into the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability and the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for health information technology.
Additionally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must establish a voluntary bonus measure within the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program to allow health care providers who have a patient match rate over a certain percentage to receive a payment adjustment. The ONC and CMS must develop a voluntary reporting program for providers to anonymously submit patient matching data to HHS.
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- AMERICAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSN
- THORN RUN PARTNERS
- COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES
- MCDERMOTT WILL & SCHULTE LLP
- COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES
- THORN RUN PARTNERS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- White House Office
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2002: MATCH IT Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2002/
"H.R. 2002: MATCH IT Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2002/.
H.R. 2002, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2002/.
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