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118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-875
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
HEALTHY COMPETITION FOR BETTER CARE ACT
DECEMBER 16, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3120]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 3120) to ban anticompetitive terms in facility
and insurance contracts that limit access to higher quality, lower
cost care, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act.
SEC. 2. BANNING ANTICOMPETITIVE TERMS IN FACILITY AND INSURANCE CONTRACTS THAT
LIMIT ACCESS TO HIGHER QUALITY, LOWER COST CARE.
(a) IN GENERAL.-
(1) PHSA.-Section 2799A-9 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
300gg-119) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(b) PROTECTING HEALTH PLANS NETWORK DESIGN FLEXIBILITY.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-A group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering
group or individual health insurance coverage shall not enter into an agreement
with a provider, network or association of providers, or other service provider
offering access to a network of service providers if such agreement, directly or
indirectly-
(A) restricts the group health plan or health insurance issuer from-
(i) directing or steering enrollees to other health care providers; or
(ii) offering incentives to encourage enrollees to utilize specific
health care providers;
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