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HR 3920 115th Congress House Health Debt collection Health care quality Hospital care Medicare

To establish a Medicare demonstration program on the use of third-party interest-free payment arrangements to reduce Medicare hospital part A bad debt claims.

Introduced: October 3, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Oct 6, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct 3, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Oct 3, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a three-year demonstration program to determine the impact of third-party, interest-free payment arrangements on: (1) health outcomes, (2) patient engagement and satisfaction, and (3) claims for bad debt that are attributable to a hospital's inability to collect deductibles and coinsurance for Medicare hospital services. Under the program, the CMS shall provide a payment incentive to a hospital that participates in such a payment arrangement and demonstrates improvement in those three areas.

What's happening now October 6, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Kelly, Mike
Pennsylvania · Dec 20, 2017
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3920: To establish a Medicare demonstration program on the use of third-party interest-free payment arrangements to reduce Medicare hospital part A bad debt claims.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3920/
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"H.R. 3920: To establish a Medicare demonstration program on the use of third-party interest-free payment arrangements to reduce Medicare hospital part A bad debt claims.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3920/.
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H.R. 3920, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3920/.
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[H.R. 3920: To establish a Medicare demonstration program on the use of third-party interest-free payment arrangements to reduce Medicare hospital part A bad debt claims.](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3920/)
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