H.R. 2749 · 110th Congress
Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007
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Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate the quality reporting system under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act as applied for 2007 before transition to a new voluntary Medicare quality reporting system.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jun 15, 2007
Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate the quality reporting system under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act as applied for 2007 before transition to a new voluntary Medicare quality reporting system.
Allows eligible professionals to continue to report to the Secretary specified quality measures for covered professional services in order for the Secretary to refine systems for reporting them.
Prohibits use of the Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund for quality reporting bonus payments in 2008.
Specifies quality measures for covered professional services for the voluntary Medicare quality reporting program.
Revises requirements for medical registry-based reporting of quality measures. Directs the Secretary to treat quality measures data as confidential, unavailable to any other party or person. Shields such data from discovery or admission into evidence in any federal or state civil judicial or administrative proceeding.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007
Latest action (Jun 26, 2007): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Jun 15, 2007
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.