Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
Latest action · Apr 12, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 30, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.)
Cosponsors 58
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 30, 2017 to Jul 18, 2018; 28 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-TX | Blake Farenthold | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-UT | Chris Stewart | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-AZ | David Schweikert | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-GA | David Scott | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-AK | Don Young | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-CO | Doug Lamborn | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-IN | Jackie Walorski | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
| R-TX | Jeb Hensarling | Original | Mar 30, 2017 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 30, 2017 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 31, 2017 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 30, 2017 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 12, 2017 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 12, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 31, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 30, 2017Introduced in House
- Mar 30, 2017Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 56, March 30, 2017, page H2601.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1001 | Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017 | Identical bill | May 2, 2017 |
| HR 6138 | ASC Payment Transparency Act of 2018 | Related bill | Jul 25, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 30, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
