US Congress House Bill 5709 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 11 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Hospital Price Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2011 [sic] - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require a hospital or ambulatory surgical center to report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding: (1) the frequency of occurrence of certain treatment episodes for the most frequently treated conditions or diseases in each setting, (2) the total number of treatment episodes for which care was furnished by the hospital or center, and (3) the insured and uninsured average charge by the hospital or center for such treatment episode. Requires the Secretary to promptly post such information on the HHS website in a manner that promotes charge comparisons among hospitals and among ambulatory surgical centers. Requires a hospital and an ambulatory surgical center to prominently post at each admission site a notice of the availability of such data. Authorizes civil penalties for violations of this Act.

Hospital Price Transparency and Disclosure Act of 2011

Rep Lipinski, Daniel

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2012-05-10	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN05709:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr5709ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5709ih.pdf