US Congress Senate Bill 2553 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 26 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-06-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 or the IMPACT Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) require post-acute care (PAC) providers to report standardized patient assessment data, data on quality measures, and data on resource use and other measures; (2) require the data to be interoperable to allow for its exchange among PAC and other providers to give them access to longitudinal information so as to facilitate coordinated care and improve Medicare beneficiary outcomes; and (3) modify PAC assessment instruments applicable to PAC providers for the submission of standardized patient assessment data on such providers and enable assessment data comparison across all such providers. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide confidential feedback reports to PAC providers on their performance with respect to required measures; and (2) arrange for public reporting of PAC provider performance on quality, resource use, and other measures. Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to: (1) evaluate and recommend to Congress features of PAC payment systems that establish, or a unified PAC payment system that establishes, payment rates according to characteristics of individuals instead of according to the PAC setting where the Medicare beneficiary involved is treated; and (2) recommend to Congress a technical prototype for a PAC prospective payment system. Directs the Secretary to reduce by 2% the update to the market basket percentage for skilled nursing facilities which do not report assessment and quality data. Directs the Secretary to study: (1) the effect of individuals' socioeconomic status on quality, resource use, and other measures for individuals under the Medicare program; and (2) the impact on such measures of specified risk factors.

IMPACT Act of 2014

Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-06-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB4994 (Same As) 2014-10-06 - Became Public Law No: 113-185.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2553/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2553/BILLS-113s2553is.pdf