Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act
Summary
Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act This bill establishes a series of requirements relating to the collection of medical debt. Among other provisions, the bill restricts the circumstances under which health care entities may initiate extraordinary collection actions, requires entities to provide detailed debt statements and payment receipts to patients, and establishes a public medical debt collection database with information about medical debt collectors.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Nov 30, 2022
Last action Nov 30, 2022
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2
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Committee
1
Nov 30, 2022
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
Nov 30, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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