MATCH IT Act of 2026

This bill would require the federal health department to create, within 180 days, a standard definition and standards for measuring how accurately patients are matched to their medical records, and to update them at least every 3 years. The National Coordinator for health IT would set a minimum set of patient data needed to support a 99.9 percent match rate and add it to the national core data set, though no entity would be required to reach that rate. The data set would then be added to federal certification rules for health IT and to Medicare interoperability program requirements. Medicare would also create a voluntary bonus measure paying providers who attest to a patient match rate of at least 90 percent, with attestations kept private and no penalty for not taking part.

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Sponsors

• Mark R. Warner Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors