A bill to amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require the collection of data from home health agencies furnishing services under the Medicare program under the OASIS data collection program from PDF
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I 106thCOxNGRESS H. R. 2246 1stSession To amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to proliibit the Secretaryof HealthandHumanServicestorequirethecollectionofdatafromhome health agrencies fiirnisliing servicesunderthe Medicare Program under the OASIS data collection program from non-Medicare patients, and forotherpuqjoses. IN THE HOUSE OF KEPRESEXTATR^S June16,1999 Mr.RyunofKansas (forhimself,Mr.MORANofKansas,Mr.TiAHRT,Mr. Netherciitt, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Hoekbtra, Mr. Raiiau., Mr. HOSTETTLER,Mr.PETERSONofPennsylvania,Ms.MlLLENDER-McDON- ALD,Mr. KOLBE,Mr. PAUL,Mrs. MyricK,Mr. BARRETTofNebraska, andMr.MarIvEY)introducedthefollowingbill;wliiehwasreferredtothe CommitteeonWays and Means, and in addition to the Committeeon Commerce,foraperiod tobesubsequentlydeterminedbytheSpeaker, ineachcaseforconsiderationofsuchprovisionsasfallwithinthejuris- dictionofthecommitteeconcerned A BILL To amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to proliibit the Secretarv' ofHealth and Human Services to require the collection of data from home health agencies fur- nishing services under the Medicare Program under the OASIS data coUection program from non-Medicare pa- tients, andforotherpurposes. 1 BeitenactedbytheSenateandHouseofRepresenta- 2 tivesoftheUnitedStatesofAmericainCongressassembled, 2 1 SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 2 ThisActmaybecitedasthe"MedicareHomeHealth 3 CareRehefActof1999". 4 SEC.2.LIMITATIONONOASISDATACOLLECTIONTOMEDI- 5 CAREPATIENTDATA. — 6 (a)InGenerai.. Effectiveasifinchidedintheen- 7 actmentoftheBalancedBudgetActof1997 (PublicLaw 8 105-33), section 4602(e) ofsuchAct (42 U.S.C. 1395fff 9 note) is amendedbyaddingattheendthefollowingnew 10 sentence: "Notwithstandinganypro\dsionofsection 1891 11 oftheSocialSecurityAct(42U.S.C. 1395bbb)tothecon- 12 trary, the Secretary may only require the submission of 13 additionalinformationunderthis subsectionwithrespect 14 to indi\dduals who are entitled to benefits underpartA, 15 orenroUedunderpartB, orboth, oftitleXVIII ofsuch 16 Act.". 17 (b)ReporttoCongress.—BynotlaterthanOcto- 18 ber1,2001,theSecretaryofHealthandHumanServices 19 shallsubmittoCongressareportonthecoUectionofdata 20 fromhomehealthagenciesonpatientsoftheagenciesthat 21 includesthefoUowing: 22 (1) Recommendations for such legislative and 23 administrative actionsthatthe Secretarydetermines 24 isappropriatewithrespecttothe collectionofinfor- 25 mationbythe Secretaryfrommedicarehomehealth •HR2246IH agencies on patients of such agencies that are not medicarebeneficiaries. (2) Adetermination ofwhetherthe integrityof data collectedpursuant to the Outcome andAssess- ment Information Set (OASIS) is affected by the personal nature ofthe questions posed byreason of suchset. i (3) With resi)ect to the comprehensive assess- ment ofi)atients, a determinationofwhetherthein- tegrity of the data collected would be improved by pro\dding additional time for the completion ofthe comprehensive assessment and the update of the comprehensiveasses1sment. — (c)Definitions. Inthissection: (1) CoiVffREHENSm^ ASSESSMENT OF PA- — TIENTS. The term "comprehensive assessment of patients" means the rule published by the Health Care FinancingAdministration in the Federal Reg- ister on Januar}^ 25, 1999 (64 FR 3784), that re- quires, as a condition of jjarticipation in the medi- careprogram, ahomehealthagencytoproAadeapa- tient-specific comprehensive assessment that accu- rately reflects the patient's current status and that incorporates the Outcome andAssessment Informa- >HR2246IH ensLIBRflRV 4 3 flDIS DDQ1LTL5 S tion Set (OASIS), under section 484.55 oftitle 42 oftheCodeofFederalReflations. (2) Completion op the comprehensive as- — sessment. The term "completion of the com- prehensive assessment" means the standard for the completion of the comprehensive assessment pro- videdundersubsection(b) ofsuchsection. (3) Update op the coMPREiiENsrvE assess- — ment. Theterm "update ofthe comprehensive as- sessment" means the standard for anupdate ofthe comprehensiveassessmentprovidedundersubsection (d) ofsuchsection. (4) Outcome and assessment inpormation — set. The term "Outcome and Assessment Infor- mation Set" means the standard pro\aded under subsection (e) ofsuchsection, relatingto dataitems thatmustbeusedinconductingacomprehensiveas- sessmentofpatients. O •HR2246IH
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