HR6855-118

Introduced

To ensure timely bills for patients.

118th Congress Introduced Dec 19, 2023

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 ensure timely bills for patients., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Finance, Transportation.

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 H53DDBE7945B9403A8DFA9841B904B38A: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Timely Bills for Patients Act.
  • Section HF69395A32113478FB66018D77AEEDFBA: 2. Timely bills for patients Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:...
  • Section H70CB504272E14D27A5D3FAF65B95424A: 399V–7. Timely bills for patients The Secretary shall require— health care facilities, or in the case of practitioners providing services outside of such a...
  • Section H8E71E4BADB87412F9D7E3C5A22991EDA: 2729A. Timely bills for patients A group health plan or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall have in place...

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 ensure timely bills for patients., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Key Policy Areas

Healthcare, Finance, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, To ensure timely bills for patients., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Policy Domains

Healthcare Finance Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • health care providers and patients
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health care providers and patients: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • health care providers and patients
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federal implementing agencies: ,
health care providers and patients: ,

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 19, 2023

Mr. Gallagher introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

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?

Domains
Healthcare Finance Transportation
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

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