3.0.0 1860 2023-01-11T13:23:32Z 2023-01-11T13:23:32Z Senate S S 2013-12-19 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-12-19T16:24:49Z Health Care Choice Act of 2013 113 762 HR 2013-04-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS American Health Care Reform Act of 2013 113 3121 HR 2014-01-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Patient Centered Healthcare Savings Act of 2013 113 3622 HR 2014-01-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Related bill CRS MCAP Act 113 44 S 2013-01-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2013-12-19 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2013-12-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001041 Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV] Dean Heller R NV N Health Administrative remedies Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration Canada Civil actions and liability Congressional oversight Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Evidence and witnesses Government studies and investigations Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Hospital care Income tax deductions Insurance industry and regulation Intergovernmental relations Medical education Medicare Prescription drugs Rural conditions and development State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Trade restrictions Health 00 2013-12-19 Introduced in Senate 2014-01-14T20:05:58Z Steps Toward Access and Reform Act of 2013 or STAR Act of 2013 - Limits the commencement of a health care lawsuit, except in certain cases including fraud or intentional concealment, to three years after the date of manifestation of injury or one year after the claimant discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury, whichever occurs first.

Limits to $250,000 the amount of noneconomic damages in such a lawsuit, but allows a claim for the full amount of any economic damages.

Requires the court, in any health care lawsuit, to supervise the arrangements for payment of damages to protect against conflicts of interest that may have the effect of reducing the amount of damages awarded that are actually paid to claimants.

Allows any party in any health care lawsuit involving injury or wrongful death to introduce evidence of collateral source benefits.

Specifies criteria for the award of punitive damages, limited to the greater of $250,000 or double the amount of economic damages.

Preempts state law with respect to health care lawsuits, but subjects to otherwise applicable state or federal law any issue not governed by this Act or any law (including state standards of negligence) established by or under it.

Declares the sense of Congress that a health insurer should be liable for damages for harm caused when it makes a decision as to what care is medically necessary and appropriate.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to contract with eligible health professionals to serve for a period of at least four years as a primary care provider in a medically underserved community, in consideration for which the Secretary shall pay up to $100,000 on the principal and interest on the individual's graduate medical, osteopathic, or other health professional educational loans.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a bad debt deduction from gross income for worthless qualified medical care debt of at least 75% of a tax-paying medical care provider's charge for such care.

Prohibits the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from taking action to prevent an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug from importing one from Canada that complies with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to declare that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with conditions of this Act.

Prohibits a health insurance issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if its insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for determining capital and surplus requirements for all health insurance issuers.]]>

STAR Act of 2013 Display Title STAR Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reform the medical liability system, improve access to health care for rural and indigent patients, enhance access to affordable prescription drugs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced STAR Act of 2013 Short Titles as Introduced Steps Toward Access and Reform Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-12-19T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1860is/xml/BILLS-113s1860is.xml 2013-12-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.