Meaningful Use Hardship Relief Act of 2015

Meaningful Use Hardship Relief Act of 2015

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to create a blanket exception for providers from the application of certain negative payment adjustments for failing to comply, during the 2015 reporting period, with requirements related to the meaningful use of electronic health records. Under current law, providers may be exempted due to significant hardship on a case-by-case basis.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3940 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3940

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize a blanket 
 meaningful use significant hardship exception for the 2015 reporting 
period due to the delay in timely publication of the Stage 2 meaningful 
                               use rule.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 5, 2015

Mr. Tom Price of Georgia (for himself, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
  Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Harris, Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia, and Mr. 
 Heck of Nevada) 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize a blanket 
 meaningful use significant hardship exception for the 2015 reporting 
period due to the delay in timely publication of the Stage 2 meaningful 
                               use rule.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Meaningful Use Hardship Relief Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING A BLANKET MEANINGFUL USE SIGNIFICANT HARDSHIP 
              EXCEPTION FOR 2015.

    Sections 1848(a)(7)(B) and 1886(b)(3)(B)(ix)(II) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(a)(7)(B), 1395ww(b)(3)(B)(ix)(II)) are 
each amended by inserting ``(or through a blanket exception with 
respect to the 2015 EHR reporting period)'' after ``on a case-by-case 
basis''.
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