3.0.0 3139 2023-08-11T14:00:34Z 2023-08-11T14:00:34Z Senate S 2021-11-02 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-11-02T20:00:56Z 2021-11-02 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2021-11-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001310 Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] Mike Braun R IN N B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2021-11-02 True Health Competition and antitrust Contracts and agency Government information and archives Health care costs and insurance Health 00 2021-11-02 Introduced in Senate 2022-09-21T14:10:43Z Healthy Competition for Better Care Act

This bill generally prohibits agreements between health insurance plans and provider networks that (1) restrict an insurance plan from offering incentives for enrollees to use specific providers, (2) require a plan to enter into additional agreements with an affiliate of the provider network, or (3) require a plan to agree to certain payment rates or other terms with entities that are not a party to the contract.

]]> Healthy Competition for Better Care Act Display Title Healthy Competition for Better Care Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Healthy Competition for Better Care Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to ban anticompetitive terms in facility and insurance contracts that limit access to higher quality, lower cost care. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3139is/xml/BILLS-117s3139is.xml 2021-11-02 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.