3.0.0 820 2020-02-10T17:00:20Z 2020-02-10T17:00:20Z Senate S S 2005-04-15 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-04-15T16:32:34Z 2005-04-15 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3750-3751) IntroReferral 2005-04-15 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3749-3750) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-04-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000061 Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] RUSSELL FEINGOLD D WI D. N C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2005-04-15 True Health Agricultural cooperatives Agriculture and Food Commerce Consumer education Cooperative societies Economics and Public Finance Employee health benefits Farmers Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government and business Government paperwork Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Health education Health insurance Insurance companies Insurance premiums Labor and Employment Medical economics Nonprofit organizations Quality of care Self-care Self-insurance Small business Social Welfare Health 00 2005-04-15 Introduced in Senate 2005-05-24T14:57:44Z Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to award grants for the development of health care purchasing cooperatives by two or more self-insured employers.

Sets forth requirements for cooperatives, including that they: (1) are nonprofit, wholly owned, and democratically governed by its member-employers; (2) exist solely to serve the membership base; (3) assist members in pooling their health care insurance purchasing power; (4) provide data to improve the ability of the members to make data-based decisions regarding their health plans; and (5) conduct activities to enhance quality improvement in the health care community.

Requires the Secretary to carry out an identical grant program for eligible groups of two or more employers that have 99 employees or less and purchase health insurance for their employees.]]>

Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act Short Titles as Introduced Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act Display Title Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to promote the development of health care cooperatives that will help businesses to pool the health care purchasing power of employers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2005-04-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s820is/xml/BILLS-109s820is.xml 2005-04-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3750-3751) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.