A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional transparency and consumer protections relating to medical debt collection practices.
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Latest Action · September 24, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act
This bill establishes a series of requirements relating to the collection of medical debt. Among other provisions, the bill restricts the circumstances under which health care entities may initiate extraordinary collection actions, requires entities to provide detailed debt statements and payment receipts to patients, and establishes a public medical debt collection database with information about medical debt collectors.
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