3.0.0 1688 2022-11-01T06:17:30Z 2022-11-01T06:17:30Z Senate S 2019-05-23 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-05-23T21:03:25Z Hospital Competition Act of 2020 116 8098 HR 2020-08-25 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Related bill CRS 2019-05-23 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2019-05-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2019-05-23 True Health Civil actions and liability Government information and archives Health care costs and insurance Health 00 2019-05-23 Introduced in Senate 2020-01-25T20:01:32Z This bill establishes certain requirements relating to health care billing practices.

Specifically, the bill requires health care facilities and practitioners to (1) provide patients with a list of rendered services upon discharge, and (2) send all bills to patients within 30 business days. Further, patients may not be required to pay a bill earlier than 30 business days from the date of receipt.

Facilities and practitioners must report any bills that are sent outside of the authorized time period to the Department of Health and Human Services and must also issue refunds to the patients billed; repeated violations are subject to civil penalties.

]]> A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the full disclosure of billing and service information to patients. Display Title A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the full disclosure of billing and service information to patients. Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the full disclosure of billing and service information to patients. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1688is/xml/BILLS-116s1688is.xml 2019-05-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.