The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has spent $210,000 on lobbying expenses in 2024, according to data from campaign finance tracking nonprofit Open Secrets.
The association has put its attention and resources on eight specific House and Senate bills in 2024:
House Bill 3561: Patient Act of 2023
HR 3561 would expand hospital price transparency requirements and establish additional reporting requirements with respect to prescription drugs and pharmacy benefit managers. It also would modify the health insurance plan disclosure requirements to include the rates for certain in-network services and prescription drug payment information.
Senate Bill 3430: Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 2023
SB 3430 seeks to expand the mental healthcare workforce and services, reduce prescription drug costs and extend certain expiring provisions under Medicare and Medicaid.
House Bill 5181: Feeding Rural Families Act of 2023
HR 5181 seeks to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to modify the thrifty food plan to apply to the urban and rural parts of the state of Hawaii.
Senate Bill 1130: Health Care PRICE Transparency Act
SB 1130 would require hospitals and health insurance plans to disclose certain information about the costs for items and services. Specifically, hospitals must publish in their list of standard charges certain rates negotiated with insurers, discounts for cash payments and billing codes.
Senate Bill 3548: Health Care Prices Revealed and Information to Consumers Explained Transparency Act
SB 3548 would require hospitals to compile and make public all of the hospital's standard charges for each item and service furnished.
House Bill 5378: Lower Costs, More Transparency Act
HR 5378 would require healthcare providers and insurers to disclose certain information about healthcare costs. It also establishes requirements for certain payment methodologies under Medicare and Medicaid and extends several public health programs.
Senate Bill 312: Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023
SB 312 would establish and modify certain requirements relating to Medicare payments for ASCs. It would require the payment system for ASC services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department services, would revise quality reporting requirements to permit publicly available and would require CMS when excluding requested procedures from the list of those approved to be performed in ASCs, to cite specific reasons for doing so.
House Bill 972, Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023
HR 972 would require the payment system for ASC services to feature certain positive annual adjustments equivalent to those made with respect to hospital outpatient department services, would revise quality reporting requirements to permit publicly available, side-by-side comparisons of quality measures for ASCs and HOPDs in the same geographic area and would require CMS, when excluding requested procedures from the list of those approved to be performed in ASCs, to cite specific reasons for doing so.