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- Last Action
- 1/18/2024
Actions
- 2023-02-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-02-09Referred 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.
- 2023-02-09Referred 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.
- 2023-02-09Introduced in House
- 2023-02-09Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-02-09 (00)
Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023
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.)
The bill also limits the copayment amount for ASC services under Medicare to that of the inpatient hospital deductible.
Cosponsors (20)
- JOHN LARSON (D-CT)
- Neal Dunn (R-FL)
- Michael Burgess (R-TX)
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
- Mike Bost (R-IL)
- Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)
- Brittany Pettersen (D-CO)
- Kevin Hern (R-OK)
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX)
- Earl Carter (R-GA)
- A. Ferguson (R-GA)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- Robin Kelly (D-IL)
- Gregory Murphy (R-NC)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
- W. Steube (R-FL)
- Larry Bucshon (R-IN)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Donald Davis (D-NC)
- Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advisory bodies
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Government information and archives
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Home and outpatient care
- Medicare
- Surgery and anesthesia
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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