Equal Health Care for All Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings on health care inequality and discrimination against communities of color, requires mandatory disaggregated health outcome data reporting by providers and facilities, and requires adding equitable health care measures to Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, product standards, and liability protections. The main policy areas are Healthcare and Finance.
Who Benefits and How
Patients experiencing discrimination would be affected, Hospitals (especially disproportionate share hospitals) could gain revenue opportunities, and Patients in underserved communities would be affected.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Hospitals participating in Medicare would take on compliance duties, Health care providers with inequitable care patterns could face increased risk, and Health care providers and facilities would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Creates congressional findings on health care inequality and discrimination against communities of color.
- Requires mandatory disaggregated health outcome data reporting by providers and facilities.
- Requires adding equitable health care measures to Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program.
- Requires permissive exclusion of providers showing pattern of inequitable care from Medicare and Medicaid.
- Requires new federal prohibition on discriminatory health care with administrative complaint process and civil enforcement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings on health care inequality and discrimination against communities of color, requires mandatory disaggregated health outcome data reporting by providers and facilities, and requires adding equitable health care measures to Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Finance
Primary Purpose
The bill creates congressional findings on health care inequality and discrimination against communities of color, requires mandatory disaggregated health outcome data reporting by providers and facilities, and requires adding equitable health care measures to Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program.
Policy Domains
Section 3 - Data Collection and Reporting
Identified Gains
- Patients experiencing discrimination
- Hospitals (especially disproportionate share hospitals)
- Patients in underserved communities
- Medicare beneficiaries from communities of color
- Underserved communities
Identified Costs
- Hospitals participating in Medicare
- Health care providers with inequitable care patterns
- Health care providers and facilities
- Health care providers
- Federal government (HHS)
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Schiff, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Health equity researchers, Hospitals (especially disproportionate share hospitals), Hospitals participating in Medicare
Positive-direction: Health equity researchers, Hospitals (especially disproportionate share hospitals), Medicare beneficiaries from communities of color, Minority and underserved patients, Patients experiencing discrimination, Patients in underserved communities, Underserved communities
Negative-direction: Hospitals participating in Medicare
Health care providers, Health care providers and facilities, Health care providers with inequitable care patterns
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_director"
- → Director for Civil Rights and Health Equity
- "the_director"
- → Director for Civil Rights and Health Equity
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Provision of health care that fails to meet a high-quality care standard and is discriminatory in intent or effect based on race, sex, disability, age, or religion
Conditions in environments where individuals live, work, attend school, and worship that affect health outcomes and risks
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