3.0.0 2005 2023-01-11T13:26:55Z 2023-01-11T13:26:55Z Senate S S 2014-02-06 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-02-06T23:14:54Z 2014-02-06 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2014-02-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000560 Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] TOM COBURN R OK N M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2014-02-06 True Health Congressional oversight Government information and archives Health care coverage and access Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Hospital care Medicare Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Health 00 2014-02-06 Introduced in Senate 2014-02-25T22:03:06Z Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013 [sic] or CLEAR Cost Information Act of 2013 [sic] - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require service providers, in order to be qualified to participate and receive Medicare payments under any agreement filed with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to report to the Secretary payment data on "subsection (d) hospitals."

(Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

Requires a subsection (d) hospital to submit to the Secretary data on the actual amounts it has collected from uninsured and insured patients over the preceding two years for each of the 50 most common diagnosis-related groups and ambulatory payment classification groups for which payment is made in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Requires each annual report submitted to Congress by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to contain information on the percentage that charity care makes up of the total care furnished by hospitals and critical access hospitals.

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to post data on trends in the levels of charity care provided by certain hospitals on a publicly accessible and searchable website. Amends SSA title XVIII to require hospitals and critical access hospitals to include a link to such data on their home Internet websites.

]]> Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013 Display Title Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013 Short Titles as Introduced Consumer Learning through Electronically-Accessible and Reasonable Cost Information Act of 2013 Short Titles as Introduced CLEAR Cost Information Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the reporting of certain hospital payment data under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2014-02-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2005is/xml/BILLS-113s2005is.xml 2014-02-06 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.