A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of patient encounters in ambulatory surgical centers in determining meaningful EHR use, and for other purposes.
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on July 30, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2015
(Sec. 3) This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit, for a payment year after 2015, any patient encounter of an eligible professional occurring at an ambulatory surgical center from being treated as such an encounter in determining whether an eligible professional qualifies as a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user.
Terminates this prohibition three years after the Department of Health and Human Services determines, through notice and comment rulemaking, that certified EHR technology is applicable to the ambulatory surgical center setting.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-40, Part I.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-106.
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-106.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 185.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6425; text as passed Senate: CR S6425)
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6425; text as passed Senate: CR S6425)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Held at the desk.
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