Medicare Managed Health Care Sunshine Act of 1998
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Feb 12, 1998)
Medicare Managed Health Care Sunshine Act of 1998 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to require a Medicare+Choice organization, upon request, to provide an eligible individual with descriptive information on physician credentialing.
Directs Medicare+Choice organizations to report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services certain financial information, including an audited financial statement of the organization for the most recently concluded fiscal year.
Provides for disclosure of the availability of such information to Medicare beneficiaries and prospective Medicare beneficiaries as part of the broad dissemination of information to promote an active, informed selection of the coverage options available under the available Medicare+Choice plans.
Applies the requirements of this Act to eligible organizations with risk-sharing contracts under Medicare in the same manner that they apply to Medicare+Choice organizations.
What just happenedMar 3, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseFeb 12, 1998
- Mar 3, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Feb 18, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Feb 12, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Feb 12, 1998IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Feb 12, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee - Feb 12, 1998IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E168)
- Feb 12, 1998IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Feb 12, 1998IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House