3.0.0 312 2025-12-05T08:09:38Z 2025-12-05T08:09:38Z Senate S S 2023-02-09 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/312 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-02-09T18:47:21Z 118 972 HR 2023-02-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2023-02-09 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2023-02-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT N C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2023-02-09 True B001310 Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] Mike Braun R IN 2023-12-12 False B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2024-05-01 False Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures 2023-04-13T13:45:23Z Advisory bodies 2023-04-13T13:45:23Z Department of Health and Human Services 2023-04-13T13:45:23Z Government information and archives 2023-04-13T13:45:23Z Health care quality 2023-04-13T13:45:23Z Health facilities and institutions 2023-04-13T13:45:24Z Health information and medical records 2023-04-13T13:45:24Z Home and outpatient care 2023-04-13T13:45:24Z Medicare 2023-04-13T13:45:24Z Surgery and anesthesia 2023-04-13T13:45:24Z Health 2023-03-08T20:15:16Z

00 2023-02-09 Introduced in Senate 2023-03-27T20:58:16Z <p><b>Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of </b><b>2023</b></p> <p>This bill establishes and modifies certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services.</p> <p>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&nbsp;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 &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS), when excluding&nbsp;requested procedures from the list of those approved to be performed in ASCs, to cite specified reasons for doing so.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;(Physicians sometimes use unlisted codes when performing new procedures or services if no existing code is adequately descriptive.)</p> <p>The bill also limits the copayment amount for ASC services under Medicare to that of the inpatient hospital deductible.</p>

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