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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2002 
To amend title XXX of the Public Health Service Act to establish standards 
and protocols to improve patient matching. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2025 
Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. FOSTER, and Mr. MOULTON) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy 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 jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title XXX of the Public Health Service Act to 
establish standards and protocols to improve patient 
matching. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Patient Matching And 
Transparency in Certified Health IT Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘MATCH IT Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Ensuring accurate patient identification and 
matching is key to achieving the interoperability 
within the health care system called for by Congress 
in the 21st Century Cures Act and the Health Infor-
mation Technology for Economic and Clinical 
Health (HITECH) Act. 
(2) There is currently no national strategy to 
ensure patients are accurately matched with their 
medical records. 
(3) There is no standard definition across the 
health care system of ‘‘patient match rate’’ to ensure 
the ability to accurately measure patient matches 
and patient misidentification. 
(4) The patient match rates that are available 
can vary widely, with an estimate from CHIME not-
ing that matching within facilities can be as low as 
80 percent—meaning that one out of every five pa-
tients may not be matched to all his or her records. 
(5) Patient misidentification within the United 
States health care system is a threat to patient safe-
ty, patient privacy, and a driver of unnecessary costs 
to patients and providers. 
(6) The inability of clinicians to ensure patients 
are accurately matched with their medical record has 
caused medical errors, and even lives lost. Patient 
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misidentification has been named a recurrent patient 
safety challenge in multiple years by ECRI. 
(7) Patients must undergo unnecessary re-
peated medical tests because of the inability to en-
sure accurate matches to their medical record. 
(8) The expense of repeated medical care due to 
duplicate records costs an average of $1,950 per pa-
tient inpatient stay, and more than $1,700 per 
emergency department visit. Thirty-five percent of 
all denied claims result from inaccurate patient iden-
tification, costing the average hospital $2.5 million 
and the United States health care system more than 
$6.7 billion annually. 
(9) Overlaid records, caused by merging mul-
tiple patients’ data into one medical record, may re-
sult in unauthorized disclosures under the Health 
Insurance 
Portability 
and 
Accountability 
Act 
(HIPAA), as well as the risk of a patient receiving 
treatment for another patient’s condition. 
(10) This Act would decrease the prevalence of 
patient misidentification by further promoting inter-
operability, thereby protecting patients and address-
ing high costs driven by this issue. 
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