3.0.0 295 2022-02-03T06:05:21Z 2022-02-03T06:05:21Z Senate S S 2009-01-21 111 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-01-21T23:10:28Z 2009-01-21 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S724-726) IntroReferral 2009-01-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S723-724) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-01-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS N K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2009-02-03 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2009-03-04 False Health Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Hospital care Medicare Rural conditions and development Health 00 2009-01-21 Introduced in Senate 2009-05-13T20:17:59Z Medicare Quality and Payment Reform Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) review annually high volume readmission rates and resource use; (2) establish benchmarks for measuring them; and (3) make payment adjustments for subsection (d) hospitals that fail to meet such benchmarks.

(Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a pilot program to provide episodic payments to hospitals and other organizing entities for items and services associated with hospitalization episodes of Medicare beneficiaries with respect to one or more conditions that have a high volume, high readmission rate, or high rate of post-acute care under the Medicare program.

]]> Medicare Quality and Payment Reform Act of 2009 Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Quality and Payment Reform Act of 2009 Display Title Medicare Quality and Payment Reform Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the quality and efficiency of the Medicare program through measurement of readmission rates and resource use and to develop a pilot program to provide episodic payments to organized groups of multispecialty and multilevel providers of services and suppliers for hospitalization episodes associated with select, high cost diagnoses. Introduced in Senate 2009-01-21T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s295is/xml/BILLS-111s295is.xml 2009-01-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S724-726) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.