Patients' Right to Know Act
Latest action · May 6, 2010 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedMar 10, 2010
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Patients' Right to Know Act - Requires each entity offering a health benefits plan to make available to enrollees and potential enrollees specified information, including covered items and services, a list of limitations and restrictions, the claims appeal process, out-of-pocket cost-sharing, among other things.
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the state Medicaid plan to provide that the state will establish and maintain laws to require disclosure to the public and the Secretary of information on hospital and ambulatory surgical center prices and quality.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 10, 2010 to May 13, 2010, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | Original | Mar 10, 2010 |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Original | Mar 10, 2010 |
| R-TX | Michael C. Burgess | Original | Mar 10, 2010 |
| R-AK | Don Young | Mar 24, 2010 | |
| R-GA | Jack Kingston | Mar 24, 2010 | |
| R-PA | Joseph R. Pitts | Apr 22, 2010 | |
| R-GA | Phil Gingrey | May 5, 2010 | |
| D-TX | Ralph M. Hall | May 5, 2010 | |
| R-OH | Robert E. Latta | May 5, 2010 | |
| R-OK | John Sullivan | May 13, 2010 | |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | May 13, 2010 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 6, 2010Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Mar 11, 2010Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 10, 2010Introduced in House
- Mar 10, 2010Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- Mar 10, 2010Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2010Introduced in House
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