Members of the U.S. Home of Representatives voted 320-71 Monday to go H.R. 5378, the Decrease Prices, Extra Transparency Act invoice.
A lot of the invoice pertains to group well being protection, however a hospital transparency provision may assist purchasers with Medicare protection, by requiring hospitals that take care of Medicare sufferers to submit normal costs on-line.
Different provisions would require giant and midsize Medicare Benefit plan issuers to ship federal regulators studies on their possession, relationships with suppliers of well being care providers and items, and the movement of money between the Medicare plans and the products and providers suppliers.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., who launched the invoice, is the chair of the Home Power and Commerce Committee. That committee voted final week to approve 19 different payments associated to well being care and well being protection on a bipartisan foundation. Simply one of many payments that obtained a no vote.
What it means: Well being care and medical insurance proceed to be alternatives for bipartisanship within the Home.
Each Republicans and Democrats in Congress strongly oppose affected person confusion about well being care costs and about how their well being protection will work.
Medicare payments: Final week, ThinkAdvisor printed a checklist of 10 Home Power payments that appear particularly more likely to affect Medicare and purchasers with Medicare protection.