To provide for quality assurance of COVID-19 reimbursements and reporting.
Latest action · Mar 5, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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.
- IntroducedJan 13, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
This bill (1) establishes documentation requirements for testing, treatment, and reporting related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019); and (2) makes it unlawful to knowingly report a false diagnosis of COVID-19. To receive a federal reimbursement for the cost of a COVID-19 diagnostic test or treatment, the request for reimbursement must document that the administered COVID-19 test has been approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
Further, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must exclude from its official COVID-19 case and death counts any person who tested positive and requested federal reimbursement without the required documentation.
Additionally, any person who knowingly reports a false diagnosis of COVID-19 is subject to criminal fines and imprisonment for not more than 10 years.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Feb 2, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 13, 2021Introduced in House
- Jan 13, 2021Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 13, 2021Introduced in House
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