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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-916
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PURCHASED AND REFERRED CARE
IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 18, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 7516]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 7516) to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
to address liability for payment of charges or costs associated with
provision of purchased/referred care services, and for other pur-
poses, 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 Purchased and Referred Care Improvement Act of
2024.
SEC. 2. CHANGES TO LIABILITY FOR PAYMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Section 222 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25
U.S.C. 1621u) is amended-
(1) in subsection (a)-
(A) by striking A patient and inserting Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law or any agreement, form, or other written or electronic docu-
ment signed by a patient, a patient; and
(B) by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred
care;
(2) in subsection (b)-
(A) by striking contract care each place it appears and inserting pur-
chased/referred care;
(B) by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred
care;
(C) by inserting , notwithstanding any other provision of law or any
agreement, form, or other written or electronic document signed by a pa-
tient, after by the Service that; and
(D) by inserting to any provider, debt collector, or any other person
after is not liable;
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