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HR 4506 114th Congress House

Know Before You Go Act of 2016

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to help health care consumers comparison shop for medical services based on quality and cost.

Introduced: February 9, 2016 See on congress.gov
Health Health care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth care qualityInsurance industry and regulation
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Feb 12, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 9, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 9, 2016
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 12, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Know Before You Go Act of 2016

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to permit health insurers to include, for plan year accounting purposes, activities related to a transparency tool as activities that improve health care quality. (An insurer must provide a rebate to enrollees if the insurer spends less than a certain percentage of premium revenues on clinical services and activities that improve health care quality.) A transparency tool is a website and telephone support that provides quality of care and cost sharing comparisons among in-network providers.

Such accounting for a plan year is permitted only for insurers that have: (1) significantly increased the percentage of enrollees using a transparency tool compared to the previous year, (2) provided cost sharing estimates for episodes of care upon request, and (3) made available a list of high deductible health plans offered by the insurer to each individual seeking coverage from the insurer.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4506: Know Before You Go Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4506/
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"H.R. 4506: Know Before You Go Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4506/.
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H.R. 4506, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4506/.
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