[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2822 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2822

   To continue the use of a 3-month quarter EHR reporting period for 
health care providers to demonstrate meaningful use for 2016 under the 
  Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payment programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 20, 2016

Mr. Portman (for himself and Mr. Bennet) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To continue the use of a 3-month quarter EHR reporting period for 
health care providers to demonstrate meaningful use for 2016 under the 
  Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payment programs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Flexibility in Electronic Health 
Record Reporting Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING USE OF 3-MONTH QUARTER EHR REPORTING PERIODS FOR 
              PROFESSIONALS AND HOSPITALS TO DEMONSTRATE MEANINGFUL USE 
              FOR 2016 UNDER THE MEDICARE AND MEDICAID EHR INCENTIVE 
              PAYMENT PROGRAMS.

    In specifying the EHR reporting period under part 495 of title 42, 
Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes of titles XVIII and XIX of 
the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall continue through 2016 to permit the use of a 3-month quarter EHR 
reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use for purposes of such 
part, without regard to the payment year or the stage of meaningful use 
criteria involved.
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