Common Sense Patients' Bill of Rights Act
Official title: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a patients' b… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a patients' bill of rights, patient access to information, and accountability of health plans, and to expand access to health care coverage through tax incentives.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Title I: Patients' Bill Of Rights - Subtitle A: Right Advice and Care - Establishes patients' rights to medical advice and care (under ERISA, PHSA, and IRC).
Subtitle B: Right to Information About Plans And Providers - Establishes patients' rights to information about plans and providers.
Subtitle C: Right To Hold Health Plans Accountable - Establishes patients' rights to hold health plans accountable.
Subtitle D: State Flexibility in Applying Requirements to Health Insurance Issuers - Provides for State flexibility in applying requirements to health insurance issuers.
Subtitle E: Effective Dates; Coordination in Implementation; Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for coordination in implementation.
Title II: Remedies - Amends ERISA to provide for: (1) availability of, and limitations on, court remedies relating to medically reviewable determinations and timely review of claims; and (2) expanded court remedies relating to group health plan determinations that are not medically reviewable.
Title III: Health Care Coverage Access Tax Incentives - Amends the IRC with respect to medical savings accounts (MSAs) to: (1) repeal certain limitations on availability; (2) expand availability beyond employees of small employers and self-employed individuals; (3) increase the amount of allowable tax deduction for contributors; (4) allow both employers and employees to contribute; (5) reduce permitted deductibles under high-deductible heath plans, but provide for cost-of-living adjustments; (6) allow MSAs to be offered under cafeteria plans; and (7) direct the Comptroller General to study and report on the impact of MSAs on the cost of conventional insurance.
Allows a tax deduction for 100 percent of the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.
Title IV: Health Care Paperwork - Establishes the Health Care Panel to Devise a Uniform Explanation of Benefits to devise a single form for use by third-party health care payers for remittance of claims to providers.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5628: Common Sense Patients' Bill of Rights Act. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5628/
"H.R. 5628: Common Sense Patients' Bill of Rights Act." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5628/.
H.R. 5628, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5628/.
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