Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4275
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2015-12-16
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance

Health care quality

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2015</strong></p> <p>This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid to disregard the application of certain percentage quality increases when calculating&nbsp;the maximum payment that may be made to a Medicare Advantage organization.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4275 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2015 Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Kind , Mr. Guthrie , and Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate a provision under the Medicare Advantage program that inadvertently penalizes Medicare Advantage plans for providing high quality care to Medicare beneficiaries.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2015 . 2. Relief from quality bonus penalty in calculation of the Medicare Advantage blended benchmark cap (a) In general Section 1853(n)(4) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395w–23(n)(4) ) is amended by striking determined taking into account and inserting determined without regard to . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.