HR 4803
111th Congress
House
Health
Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicaid
State and local government operations
Surgery and anesthesia
Patients' Right to Know Act
Introduced: March 10, 2010
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Everywhere this bill has been
7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 6, 2010
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar 11, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 10, 2010
Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Mar 10, 2010
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 10, 2010
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 10, 2010
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Mar 10, 2010
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
1