[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2349

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the annual 
      reporting of data on enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 3, 2015

  Mr. Heller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the annual 
      reporting of data on enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Advantage Coverage 
Transparency Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR ENROLLMENT DATA REPORTING FOR MEDICARE 
              ADVANTAGE.

    Section 1859 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-28) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Requirement for Enrollment Data Reporting.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than May 1 of each year 
        (beginning with 2016), the Secretary shall submit to the 
        Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of the 
        House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
        Senate a report on enrollment data of the plan year ending 
        before January 1 of such year. Such enrollment data shall be 
        presented--
                    ``(A) by zip code, congressional district, and 
                State; and
                    ``(B) in a manner that provides for such data for 
                each MA-PD plan and for each MA plan that is not an MA-
                PD plan.
            ``(2) Delay of deadline.--If the Secretary is unable to 
        submit a report under paragraph (1) by May 1 of year for data 
        of the plan year ending before January 1 of such year, the 
        Secretary shall, not later than April 30 of such year notify 
        the committees described in such paragraph of--
                    ``(A) such inability, including an explanation for 
                such inability; and
                    ``(B) the date by which the Secretary will provide 
                such report, which shall be not later than June 1 of 
                such year.''.
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