3.0.0 1001 2023-01-11T13:36:32Z 2023-01-11T13:36:32Z Senate S 2017-05-02 115 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-02T15:03:09Z Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017 115 1838 HR 2017-04-12 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS ASC Payment Transparency Act of 2018 115 6138 HR 2018-07-25 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2017-05-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2017-05-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2017-05-02 True M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2017-05-02 True C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2017-05-02 True A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2017-05-02 True B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2017-05-03 False Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Advisory bodies Department of Health and Human Services Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Home and outpatient care Medicare Surgery and anesthesia Health 00 2017-05-02 Introduced in Senate 2017-07-17T17:57:57Z Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) require the payment system for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department (OPD) services; (2) revise 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) require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 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, HHS 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.)

]]> Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017 Display Title Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1001is/xml/BILLS-115s1001is.xml 2017-05-02 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.