An amendment numbered 5 printed in Part C of House Report 109-603 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit a report to Congress, which evaluates: the applicability of health care classification methodologies and codes for purposes beyond the coding services for diagnostic documentation or billing purposes; the usefulness, accuracy, and completeness of such methodologies and codes for such purposes; and the capacity of such methodologies and codes to produce erroneous or misleading information, with respect to such purposes.

1. Adds SEC. 206. REPORT ON APPROPRIATENESS OF CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGIES AND CODES FOR ADDITIONAL PURPOSES at the end of title II

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. 206. REPORT ON APPROPRIATENESS OF CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGIES AND CODES FOR ADDITIONAL PURPOSES.

   Inserted: Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report that evaluates--

   Inserted: (1) the applicability of health care classification methodologies and codes for purposes beyond the coding of services for diagnostic documentation or billing purposes;

   Inserted: (2) the usefulness, accuracy, and completeness of such methodologies and codes for such purposes; and

   Inserted: (3) the capacity of such methodologies and codes to produce erroneous or misleading information, with respect to such purposes.

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   Add at the end of title II the following new section:

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