Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act
Latest action · Jun 2, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 21, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act - Grants individuals the ability to opt out of any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system for maintaining health care information.
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) the requirement that the Secretary of Health and Human Servives adopt standards providing for standard unique health identifiers; and (2) the offense of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
Prohibits the use of federal funds to support, encourage, or otherwise promote the use of standard unique health identifiers in any federal, state, or private health care plan.
Requires informed consent for the sharing from electronic medical records of any information created pursuant to a federally mandated, created, or funded program.
Prohibits health information from an individual medical record from being placed in a federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of health information, absent a signed, informed consent from the patient involved.
States that the federal government may not require a health care provider to participate in any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of maintaining health care information.
Prohibits sanctions against a health care provider for failing to participate in such a system.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 20, 2010.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-UT | Jason Chaffetz | Jul 20, 2010 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 21, 2009 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 2, 2009 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 21, 2009 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 2, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 21, 2009Introduced in House
- May 21, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1242-1243)
- May 21, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- May 21, 2009Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- May 21, 2009Referred to House Ways and Means
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To protect the privacy of patients and physicians.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 21, 2009Introduced in House
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