Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3497
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2018-09-25
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2018-09-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6306)

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-09-25
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of </strong><b>2018</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services 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: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3497 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 25, 2018 Mr. Daines (for himself and Mr. King ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 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 2018 . 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, 2019.