Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019

Summary

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.)

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Timeline

1. 17 September 2019

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

   Source: Committee

2. 17 September 2019

   Introduced

   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.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 17 September 2019

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 17 September 2019

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 18 September 2019

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 17 September 2019 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 17 September 2019

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 17 September 2019

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 17 September 2019

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Sponsors

• John Larson · D · Sponsor
• Devin Nunes · R · Sponsor
• W. Steube · R · Cosponsor
• Tom Cole · R · Cosponsor
• Bill Posey · R · Cosponsor
• Bruce Westerman · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12] · R · Cosponsor
• Jackie Walorski · R · Cosponsor
• Vern Buchanan · R · Cosponsor
• Sanford Bishop · D · Cosponsor
• David Schweikert · R · Cosponsor
• Cathy Rodgers · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] · D · Cosponsor
• David Roe · R · Cosponsor
• Scott Tipton · R · Cosponsor
• Kenny Marchant · R · Cosponsor
• Doug Lamborn · R · Cosponsor
• Steven Palazzo · R · Cosponsor
• Lloyd Smucker · R · Cosponsor
• Steve Stivers · R · Cosponsor
• · hsif00 · Standing
• · hswm00 · Standing

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