Patients' Bill of Rights Act

Hozzl · 2023-01-16T23:03:18Z

Explore the details of Senate Bill 6 Patients' Bill of Rights Act currently in Congress. Get insights into its purpose, current status, sponsors, and potential impact on Health. Stay informed on legislative developments.

1/16/2023, 11:03 PM

Congressional Summary of S 6

Patients' Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.

Sets forth standards relating to: (1) grievance and appeals procedures; (2) access to care; (3) access to information; and (4) protection of the doctor-patient relationship.

Applies such quality care and patient protection standards to group health plans, group health coverage, and individual health coverage under specified provisions of PHSA, ERISA, and IRC.

Directs the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services (HHS), and of the Treasury to ensure coordination in the implementation of this Act.

Establishes the Health Care Panel to Devise a Uniform Explanation of Benefits. Requires the Panel to devise a single form for use by third-party health care payers for remittance of claims to providers. Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine the composition of the Panel, including equal numbers of representatives from specified types of groups.

Prohibits this Act from having any effect upon the Social Security Act or its trust funds.

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Current Status of Bill S 6

Bill S 6 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since January 22, 2001. Bill S 6 was introduced during Congress 107 and was introduced to the Senate on January 22, 2001. Bill S 6's most recent activity was Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S101-113) as of January 22, 2001

Bipartisan Support of Bill S 6

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Total Number of Cosponsors

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Policy Area and Potential Impact of Bill S 6

Primary Policy Focus

Health

Potential Impact Areas

- Access to health care

- Administrative remedies

- Case management

- Child health

- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

- Clinical trials

- Coinsurance

- Commerce

- Communication in medicine

- Consumer education

- Contracts

- Disciplining of employees

- Discrimination in employment

- Discrimination in insurance

- Discrimination in medical care

- Drug utilization

- Drugs

- Economics and Public Finance

- Emergency Management

- Emergency medical services

- Employee health benefits

- Evidence (Law)

- Families

- Federal advisory bodies

- Federal preemption

- Fees

- Finance and Financial Sector

- Fines (Penalties)

- Freedom of speech

- Government Operations and Politics

- Government paperwork

- Government trust funds

- Grievance procedures

- Gynecology

- Health insurance

- Health insurance continuation

- Health insurance industry

- Health maintenance organizations

- Hospital care

- Indemnity

- Injunctions

- Insurance premiums

- Insurance rates

- Labeling

- Labor and Employment

- Law

- Legal fees

- Liability (Law)

- Licenses

- Managed care

- Maternal health services

- Medical screening

- Medical supplies

- Obstetricians

- Obstetrics

- Old age, survivors and disability insurance

- Patients' rights

- Pediatricians

- Peer review organizations (Medicine)

- Pharmacists

- Physical examinations

- Physician-patient privilege

- Physicians

- Pregnant women

- Preventive medicine

- Punitive damages

- Quality of care

- Salaries

- Science, Technology, Communications

- Social Welfare

- Social security finance

- Standards

- State laws

- Surgery

- Telephone

- Terminal care

- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

- Trusts and trustees

- Whistle blowing

- Women

- Women's health

Alternate Title(s) of Bill S 6

Patients' Bill of Rights Act

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.

Patients' Bill of Rights Act