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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 206
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-146
THE CREATING HIGH-QUALITY RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
NECESSARY TO IMPROVE CHRONIC (CHRONIC) CARE
ACT OF 2017
AUGUST 3, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on Finance,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 870]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the bill (S.
870) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to implement
Medicare payment policies designed to improve management of
chronic disease, streamline care coordination, and improve quality
outcomes without adding to the deficit, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND ..................................................................... 1
II. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL ..................................................................... 3
A. Amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to implement Medi-
care payment policies designed to improve management of chron-
ic disease, streamline care coordination, and improve quality
outcomes without adding to the deficit ........................................... 3
III. BUDGET EFFECTS OF THE BILL ............................................................... 20
IV. VOTES OF THE COM M ITTEE ...................................................................... 28
V. REGULATORY IMPACT AND OTHER MATTERS ..................................... 28
VI. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED 29
I. LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND
The Committee on Finance, having considered S. 870, as modi-
fied, a bill that would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act
to implement Medicare payment policies designed to improve man-
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