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<item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3746" measure-id="id117hr3746" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2021-06-08" update-date="2021-07-15">
<title>Accountable Care in Rural America Act</title>
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<action-date>2021-06-08</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Accountable Care in Rural America Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) to exclude certain components from a methodology used under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The program enables accountable care organizations (ACOs) to receive payments for savings stemming from care coordination and management. </p> <p>Specifically, the bill requires the CMS to exclude an ACO's assigned Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries from certain regional adjustments to the ACO's benchmark for savings determinations, and to otherwise ensure that an ACO is not in a less favorable financial position due to its share of assigned beneficiaries in the region. </p>]]></summary-text>
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