[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 913 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 913

  To require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering 
health insurance coverage to disclose cost information to enrollees in 
                        such plans or coverage.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 27, 2019

   Mr. Braun introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering 
health insurance coverage to disclose cost information to enrollees in 
                        such plans or coverage.

    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 ``True Price Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE COSTS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Subpart II of part A of title XXVII of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-11 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``SEC. 2729A. REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE COSTS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

    ``A group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group 
or individual health insurance coverage shall disclose to enrollees in 
the plan or coverage the negotiated rate for each health care service 
covered under the plan or coverage, including the amount paid by such 
plan or issuer and any cost-sharing amount charged to the enrollee. 
Each group health plan or health insurance issuer shall post the 
information required to be disclosed under this section on the internet 
website of the health plan or health insurance issuer, and shall 
provide a hard copy of such information to enrollees upon request.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Section 2729A of the Public Health Service 
Act, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on [January 1, 
2020].
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