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HR 2002 · in committee · significant

MATCH IT Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill requires HHS to establish standards for accurately matching patients with their medical records across healthcare providers.
  • Healthcare providers and health information systems are affected by new patient matching requirements and Medicare incentive programs.
  • CMS will offer Medicare payment bonuses to providers achieving a 99.9% patient match rate, with implementation through existing interoperability programs.

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  1. 01

    How might the 99.9% patient matching requirement affect smaller healthcare providers with limited technology resources compared to larger hospital systems?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports the premise that improving patient record matching will reduce medical errors or improve health outcomes enough to justify implementation costs?

  3. 03

    Who bears the financial burden if providers fail to meet the 99.9% matching standard—does it come from Medicare funding, provider budgets, or patient care resources?

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Mike Kelly

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Introduced 2025-03-10

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-10 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

  2. 2025-03-10 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

  3. 2025-03-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. 2025-03-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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