[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3120 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3120

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of 
 future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2017

Mr. Burgess (for himself, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Tiberi, and Mr. Thompson of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of 
 future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests.

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

SECTION 1. REDUCING THE VOLUME OF FUTURE EHR-RELATED SIGNIFICANT 
              HARDSHIP REQUESTS.

    Section 1848(o)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
4(o)(2)(A)) and section 1886(n)(3)(A) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(n)(3)(A)) are each amended in the last sentence by striking ``by 
requiring'' and all that follows through ``this paragraph''.
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