Access to Claims Data Act

The Access to Claims Data Act would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process by January 1, 2026, allowing qualified clinical data registries and clinician-led clinical data registries to request Medicare claims data—and potentially Medicaid and CHIP data if deemed appropriate—for research and quality improvement purposes. The bill permits linking claims data with clinical outcomes, conducting provider quality assessments, performing risk-adjusted analyses, and publishing deidentified combined data, while eliminating the requirement that registries be qualified entities to access the data. Data would be provided at a reasonable fee covering only the cost of…

No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.