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; 3 are original cosponsors, there from 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 | |
| R-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 |
Committees 3
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 Mar 10, 2010 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 11, 2010Hearings May 6, 2010 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 10, 2010 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Mar 10, 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 the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
- Mar 10, 2010Referred to House Ways and Means
- Mar 10, 2010Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 111-119 | H.R. 4700, THE TRANSPARENCY IN ALL HEALTH CARE PRICING ACT OF 2010; H.R. 2249, THE HEALTH CARE PRICE TRANSPARENCY PROMOTION ACT OF 2009; AND H.R. 4803, THE PATIENTS' RIGHT TO KNOW ACT117 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | May 6, 2010 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To ensure health care consumer and provider access to certain health benefits plan information and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide transparency in hospital price and quality information.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Patients' Right to Know Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2010Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
