3.0.0 2553 2023-01-11T13:26:05Z 2023-01-11T13:26:05Z Senate S S 2014-06-26 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-06-26T21:06:14Z Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 113 4994 HR 2014-10-06 Became Public Law No: 113-185. Identical bill CRS 2014-06-26 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2014-06-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2014-06-26 True H.R.4994 https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4994 Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Congressional oversight Department of Health and Human Services Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Home and outpatient care Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Medicare Minority health Performance measurement Health 00 2014-06-26 Introduced in Senate 2014-07-15T20:24:34Z Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 or the IMPACT Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) require post-acute care (PAC) providers to report standardized patient assessment data, data on quality measures, and data on resource use and other measures; (2) require the data to be interoperable to allow for its exchange among PAC and other providers to give them access to longitudinal information so as to facilitate coordinated care and improve Medicare beneficiary outcomes; and (3) modify PAC assessment instruments applicable to PAC providers for the submission of standardized patient assessment data on such providers and enable assessment data comparison across all such providers.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide confidential feedback reports to PAC providers on their performance with respect to required measures; and (2) arrange for public reporting of PAC provider performance on quality, resource use, and other measures.

Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to: (1) evaluate and recommend to Congress features of PAC payment systems that establish, or a unified PAC payment system that establishes, payment rates according to characteristics of individuals instead of according to the PAC setting where the Medicare beneficiary involved is treated; and (2) recommend to Congress a technical prototype for a PAC prospective payment system.

Directs the Secretary to reduce by 2% the update to the market basket percentage for skilled nursing facilities which do not report assessment and quality data.

Directs the Secretary to study: (1) the effect of individuals' socioeconomic status on quality, resource use, and other measures for individuals under the Medicare program; and (2) the impact on such measures of specified risk factors.

]]> IMPACT Act of 2014 Display Title IMPACT Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for standardized post-acute care assessment data for quality, payment, and discharge planning, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced IMPACT Act of 2014 Short Titles as Introduced Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 Introduced in Senate 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2553is/xml/BILLS-113s2553is.xml 2014-06-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.