Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.
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Potential benefit to Group health plan fiduciaries
Fewer compliance requirements
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7. Increasing group health plan access to health data Section 2799A-9 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-119) is amended by adding at the end the following: (1)Group Health Plan Access to Information(A)In generalNo contract or arrangement for services, and no extension or renewal of such contract or arrangement, between a group health plan that is offered by a specified large emplo…
Potential benefit to Group health plan fiduciaries
Fewer compliance requirements
This clause introduces a compliance mandate and a reporting or study requirement: Requires group health plan service contracts to provide plan fiduciaries access to all claims data, pricing methodologies, and prohibits contracts that restrict such access. It is likely beneficial for Self-insured employer health plan sponsors (revenue opp up). It likely creates costs, burdens, barriers, or risks for Pharmacy benefit managers (compliance burden up), Third-party administrators (compliance burden up), and Healthcare provider networks (compliance burden up).
Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.
Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.
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Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.
Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.
