RAMP Act
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit a private cause of action for damages in the case of a group health plan which fails to provide for p… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit a private cause of action for damages in the case of a group health plan which fails to provide for primary payment or appropriate reimbursement.
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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.
Repair Abuses of MSP Payments Act or the RAMP Act
This bill restricts the private right of action against insurance plans that do not provide appropriate primary payment in cases in which Medicare is a secondary payer.
Current law allows for a private right of action against primary plans that do not provide appropriate primary payment in cases in which Medicare is a secondary payer; this provision applies to group health plans, workers' compensation plans, automobile or liability insurance plans, and no-fault insurance plans. The bill limits this provision to group health plans.
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- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
- KING & SPALDING LLP
- AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
- ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
- KING & SPALDING LLP
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
- SENATE
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4056: RAMP Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4056/
"H.R. 4056: RAMP Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4056/.
H.R. 4056, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4056/.
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