Contact Congress about H.R. 5347: Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act

Medicare care groups would have more choices for reporting care quality. A five-year pilot would also test digital reports without using the test results to score the groups or their members.

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Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act is a Senate bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Latest action on H.R. 5347: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and the doctors, hospitals, and other providers in them. It changes their reporting choices, the data they must submit, and how Medicare may score them. It also gives the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services new work and funding. Medicare patients are affected less directly because these reports help Medicare judge the quality of their care.

Why this matters: Medicare care groups may struggle when their members use different systems for collecting quality data. This bill would give them more reporting choices and some protection when a member cannot use the chosen method. That could make reporting easier, but it could also leave out some care data. The pilot could guide a later move to digital reports, even though it would test only two measures per group each year.

Key provisions in H.R. 5347

• For performance years 2025 through 2029, Medicare must offer three ways to report every required quality measure. The choices are electronic clinical quality measures, measures from Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System, and measures made for Medicare Accountable Care Organizations.
• Starting with performance years on or after January 1, 2026, Medicare cannot reject a group's data for one reason alone: some members could not use its chosen reporting method. The group must still meet all other data rules and show why those members could not collect the data.
• A digital quality reporting pilot would run for performance years 2028 through 2032. Accountable Care Organizations must apply, and the Department of Health and Human Services must select them.
• Each pilot group must report only two chosen quality measures through a digital method set by the department. It does not have to report the other measures normally required that year.
• Medicare cannot use pilot data to decide whether a group met its quality standards. It also cannot use the pilot measures or waived measures to calculate members' scores in Medicare's clinician quality program.

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