Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
Latest action · Sep 18, 2019 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.
- IntroducedSep 17, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
This bill establishes and modifies certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services.
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 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 & Medicaid Services (CMS), 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, the CMS 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 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 17, 2019 to May 1, 2020; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Sep 17, 2019 |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Oct 11, 2019 | |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Oct 11, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Oct 29, 2019 | |
| R-AR | Bruce Westerman | Oct 29, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Jan 14, 2020 | |
| R-IN | Jackie Walorski | Jan 28, 2020 | |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Jan 28, 2020 | |
| R-AZ | David Schweikert | Jan 29, 2020 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Jan 29, 2020 | |
| R-WA | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Jan 30, 2020 | |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Feb 5, 2020 | |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Feb 6, 2020 | |
| R-TX | Kenny Marchant | Feb 6, 2020 | |
| R-CO | Scott R. Tipton | Feb 6, 2020 | |
| R-CO | Doug Lamborn | Feb 14, 2020 | |
| R-MS | Steven M. Palazzo | Feb 14, 2020 | |
| R-PA | Lloyd Smucker | May 1, 2020 | |
| R-OH | Steve Stivers | May 1, 2020 |
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 Sep 17, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Sep 18, 2019 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Sep 17, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Sep 17, 2019 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Sep 17, 2019Introduced in House
- Sep 17, 2019Referred 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.
- Sep 17, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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. 165, no. 149, September 17, 2019, page H7754.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3085 | Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019 | Identical bill | Dec 18, 2019 |
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 Title(s) as Introduced
- Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 17, 2019Introduced 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.
