US Congress Senate Bill 1688 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 23 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes certain requirements relating to health care billing practices. Specifically, the bill requires health care facilities and practitioners to (1) provide patients with a list of rendered services upon discharge, and (2) send all bills to patients within 30 business days. Further, patients may not be required to pay a bill earlier than 30 business days from the date of receipt. Facilities and practitioners must report any bills that are sent outside of the authorized time period to the Department of Health and Human Services and must also issue refunds to the patients billed; repeated violations are subject to civil penalties.

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the full disclosure of billing and service information to patients.

Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB8098 (Related) 2020-08-25 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1688/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1688/BILLS-116s1688is.pdf