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H.R. 4277 105th Congress House

Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1998

Official title: To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations by groups of health care professionals and… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations by groups of health care professionals and certain other associations that are engaged in negotiations with health maintenance organizations and other health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act.

Introduced: October 5, 1998 See on congress.gov
Health Antitrust lawCommerceEmployee health benefitsFederal preemption
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This bill died when the 105th Congress ended
It never became law before the 105th Congress (1997–1998) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 29, 1998
Committee Hearings Held.
Jul 20, 1998
Introduced in House
Jul 20, 1998
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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 Latest action July 29, 1998

Committee Hearings Held.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1998 - Entitles the members of any group of health care professionals, or of any association maintaining an arrangement to which State licensure laws do not apply by reason of supersession of State law by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which is negotiating to purchase coverage from a State licensed health insurance issuer, to the same treatment under antitrust laws as that which is accorded to members of a collective bargaining unit recognized under the National Labor Relations Act.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Oct 5, 1998
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Sep 14, 1998
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4277: Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1998. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-4277/
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"H.R. 4277: Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1998." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-4277/.
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H.R. 4277, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-4277/.
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