US Congress House Bill 506 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes a series of programs and requirements relating to hospital costs, payments, and infrastructure. Among other things, the bill requires hospitals, as a condition of Medicare participation, to (1) in the case of hospitals that meet specified market concentration thresholds, apply Medicare reimbursement rates regardless of whether the individual receiving services is entitled to or enrolled in Medicare; and (2) publish the prices charged for specified services that are highly utilized. The bill also repeals (1) performance incentives under the Medicare Shared Savings Program for accountable care organizations, and (2) provisions under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) that prohibit physician-owned hospitals from expanding facility capacity.

Hospital Competition Act of 2019

Sen. Jim Banks [R-IN]

Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-02-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
2019-01-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-01-11	House	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.
2019-01-11	House	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.
2019-01-11	House	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.
2019-01-11	House	Introduced in House

HB1332 (Related) 2019-02-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB3062 (Related) 2019-06-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB2860 (Related) 2019-11-14 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/506/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr506/BILLS-116hr506ih.pdf