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HR 5347 Passed a chamber

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to keep certain quality-reporting collection types available for Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations for performance years 2025 through 2029, and creates a digital quality reporting pilot for selected organizations starting in 2028.

Official title: Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act

Next stop Senate: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 15-SEP-2025
Referred 15-SEP-2025
Approved by committee 17-SEP-2025
Passed 29-JUN-2026
Senate
Received 13-JUL-2026
Key points
  • Requires the Secretary to make electronic clinical quality measures, MIPS clinical quality measures, and Medicare ACO quality measures available as collection types for performance years 2025 through 2029.
  • Bars the Secretary from finding ACO data unrepresentative solely because an ACO participant could not collect it through the chosen collection type, if the ACO otherwise meets completeness rules and shows the participant was unable to collect the data.
  • Establishes a digital quality measure reporting pilot for performance years 2028 through 2032, in which selected ACOs report two specified measures and only those measures count toward quality performance standards and the quality score.
  • Appropriates $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 to the CMS Program Management Account and lowers the Medicare Improvement Fund amount in Section 1898(b)(1) from $2,062,000,000 to $2,054,000,000.
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (15-SEP-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 29-JUN-2026).

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Committee referrals (3) Policy area

Health

Sponsor Vern Buchanan (R-FL) Cosponsors · 4
■ 3 R■ 1 D
1 Democrat