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HR 4299 114th Congress House

Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to prevent the Secretary of Health and Human Services from limiting access to excepted benefits, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 18, 2015 See on congress.gov
Health Health care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHospital care
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Dec 18, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 18, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dec 18, 2015
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 Latest action December 18, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from imposing additional conditions on excepted benefits, which are health benefits that are not subject to requirements applicable to group health plans or individual health insurance.

In the individual health insurance market, HHS may not condition the treatment of fixed indemnity insurance as an excepted benefit on the beneficiary satisfying the requirement for minimum essential coverage.

The amendments made by this bill are retroactively effective as if included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4299: Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4299/
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"H.R. 4299: Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4299/.
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H.R. 4299, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4299/.
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