US Congress Senate Bill 2648 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on October 21 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-10-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to exclude certain components from a methodology used under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The program enables accountable care organizations (ACOs) to receive payments for savings stemming from care coordination and management. Specifically, the bill requires the CMS to exclude an ACO's assigned Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries from certain regional adjustments to the ACO's benchmark for savings determinations, and to otherwise ensure that an ACO is not in a less favorable financial position due to its share of assigned beneficiaries in the region.

Rural ACO Improvement Act

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]

Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-10-21	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB5212 (Related) 2019-11-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2648/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2648/BILLS-116s2648is.pdf