US Congress House Bill 4506 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Know Before You Go Act of 2016

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-02-09	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2016-02-09	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4506/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4506/BILLS-114hr4506ih.pdf