H.R. 4803 · 111th Congress
Patients' Right to Know Act
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Terry3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
Patients' Right to Know Act - Requires each entity offering a health benefits plan to make available to enrollees and potential enrollees specified information, including covered items and services, a list of limitations and restrictions, the claims appeal process, out-of-pocket cost-sharing, among other things.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 10, 2010
Patients' Right to Know Act - Requires each entity offering a health benefits plan to make available to enrollees and potential enrollees specified information, including covered items and services, a list of limitations and restrictions, the claims appeal process, out-of-pocket cost-sharing, among other things.
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the state Medicaid plan to provide that the state will establish and maintain laws to require disclosure to the public and the Secretary of information on hospital and ambulatory surgical center prices and quality.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Patients' Right to Know Act
Latest action (May 6, 2010): Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 10, 2010
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.