To promote hospital and insurer price transparency, and for other purposes.
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote hospital and insurer price transparency, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Government Operations, Finance.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HD5493EBE9698442CB81D996714FC0DA5: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Access to Treatments and Increasing Extremely Needed Transparency Act of 2023 or the PATIENT Act of 2023.
- Section H3AC52B2D31A549E39AE2202F79FA2D3B: 101. Price transparency requirements Section 2718(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–18(e)) is amended— by striking Each hospital and...
- Section H323A8FA872C440549413BA74B5EAD9E3: 102. Strengthening health insurer transparency requirements Section 1311(e)(3)(C) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(e)(3)(C))...
- Section HC9F5649BAAD64E088CAF2C1DCFB8CBF6: 103. Requiring a separate identification number and an attestation for each off-campus outpatient department of a provider Section 1833(t) of the Social...
- Section HD6415D8CE8094C59B55655D2750A78CF: 104. Mandatory reporting with respect to certain health-related ownership information Part A of title XI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.) is...
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote hospital and insurer price transparency, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Government Operations, Finance
Primary Purpose
This bill, To promote hospital and insurer price transparency, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMrs. Rodgers of Washington (for herself and Mr. Pallone) introduced …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_labor"
- → Secretary of Labor
- "secretary_of_treasury"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a department of a provider (as defined in section 413.65(a)(2) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations) that is not located— on the campus (as such term is defined in such section 413.65(a)(2)) of such provider
a publicly-traded or non-publicly traded company that collects capital investments from individuals or entities and purchases an ownership share of a provider of services (as defined in section 1861(u)). The term specified entity means— a hospital
a department of a provider (as defined in section 413.65 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation) that is not located— on the campus (as defined in such section) of such provider
a publicly-traded or non-publicly traded company that collects capital investments from individuals or entities and purchases an ownership share of a provider of services (as defined in section 1861(u)). The term specified entity means— a hospital
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
Learn more about our methodology