Healthcare Cost Transparency Act

United States116th CongressHR-5121House of Representatives
Updated: Nov 18, 2019

Summary

Healthcare Cost Transparency Act This bill requires health insurance issuers, including those issuing plans to federal employees, to make price comparison guidance available to plan holders. Specifically, issuers must employ staff or provide an online tool to compare a plan holder's cost-sharing responsibility between in-network providers for specific items or services.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and 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.

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  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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