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    <item congress="118" measure-type="s" measure-number="3059" measure-id="id118s3059" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2023-10-17" update-date="2024-08-07">
        <title>REAL Health Providers Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id118s3059v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2024-08-07">
            <action-date>2023-10-17</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Requiring Enhanced &amp; Accurate Lists of Health Providers Act or the REAL Health Providers Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations to maintain directories of in-network providers and continually ensure their accuracy.</p><p>Specifically, MA organizations must publish on their websites an accurate directory of in-network providers and regularly update these directories. The bill additionally specifies that if a provider is listed as in-network in this directory when a beneficiary selects and makes an appointment with the provider, but the provider is not actually in-network, the beneficiary is still only responsible for paying in-network cost-sharing requirements.</p><p>MA organizations must annually evaluate and report on the accuracy of their directories; the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services and MA organizations must publish this information on their websites. The bill provides funds for these purposes.</p><p>The Government Accountability Office must report on the bill's implementation.</p>]]></summary-text>
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