# 119-s-5246: MATCH IT Act of 2026

119-s-5246, MATCH IT Act of 2026, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] (D-VA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-22).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-5246
- Congress: 119
- Title: MATCH IT Act of 2026
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-08-05
- Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] (D-VA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-22

## Summary

**Standardized patient matching** would be created across federal health IT programs to make it easier to link the right records to the right person. The bill focuses on a uniform patient match definition, a minimum USCDI data set, and voluntary Medicare incentives. - Providers and health IT developers would adopt a minimum data set added to the US Core Data for Interoperability to support patient matching, targeting a 99.9% adoption rate for certified technology. - Medicare clinicians could earn a voluntary bonus in the Promoting Interoperability Program by attesting to an accurate patient match rate of at least 90% or a rate set by annual review. Attestations would be optional, not publicly disclosed, and would not lower other incentive scores. - Aims to reduce patient misidentification, duplicate or overlaid records, and privacy risks to improve safety and care coordination.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN), 2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Patient matching rules for providers: mixed, medium. If enacted, HHS would set a national definition and standards for accurate patient matching within 180 days. ONC would pick a minimum set of patient data and add standards into USCDI within 1 year. The data set would aim for 99.9% adoption of those elements. That would not force any entity to achie…

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## Sources
- [119-s-5246 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5246)

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- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-4189: INSULIN Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4189)
- [119-s-1591: ARCA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1591)
- [119-s-1459: Historic Tax Credit Growth and Opportunity Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1459)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5246 (as of 2026-08-22).