Bill > HR2299

Introduced Session

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for site-of-service price transparency under the Medicare program. This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, in order to facilitate price transparency with respect to items and services for which payment may be made to a hospital outpatient department or to an ambulatory surgery center, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available to the public via a searchable website: (1) the estimated payment amount for an appropriate number of items and services under the outpatient department fee schedule and the ambulatory surgical center payment system, and (2) the estimated amount of beneficiary liability applicable to such an item or service.

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Gus Bilirakis (R)*, 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (on 06/01/2015)

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