3.0.0 810 2023-01-11T13:27:49Z 2023-01-11T13:27:49Z Senate S 2015-03-19 114 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-03-19T18:16:08Z Expanding the Availability of Medicare Data Act 114 804 HR 2015-02-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 114 1470 HR 2015-03-31 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Identical bill CRS Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 114 2 HR 2015-04-16 Became Public Law No: 114-10. Related bill CRS 2015-03-19 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2015-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N H.R.2 https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2 Health Advisory bodies Child health Congressional oversight Fraud offenses and financial crimes Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health information and medical records Health personnel Health promotion and preventive care Health technology, devices, supplies Medicaid Medical research Medicare Minority health Performance measurement Poverty and welfare assistance Right of privacy Rural conditions and development User charges and fees Health 00 2015-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2015-04-16T16:40:53Z SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to: (1) remove sustainable growth rate (SGR) methodology from the determination of annual conversion factors in the formula for payment for physicians' services, and (2) revise the update in rates for 2015 and subsequent years.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Merit-based Incentive Payment (MIP) system under which eligible professionals (including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified registered nurse anesthetists) shall receive annual payment increases or decreases based on their performance.

Requires specified incentive payments to eligible participants in an alternative payment model.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) draft a plan for development of quality measures to assess professionals, including non-patient-facing professionals; and (2) make payments for chronic care management services.

Expands the kinds of uses of Medicare data available to qualified entities. Directs the Secretary to provide Medicare data to qualified clinical data registries to facilitate quality improvement or patient safety.

Declares it a national objective to achieve widespread exchange of health information through interoperable certified electronic health records technology nationwide by December 31, 2018.

]]> SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 Display Title SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and improve Medicare payments for physicians and other professionals, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s810is/xml/BILLS-114s810is.xml 2015-03-19 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.