Hospital Competition Act of 2019
This bill establishes a series of programs and requirements relating to hospital costs, payments, and infrastructure.
Among other things, the bill requires hospitals, as a condition of Medicare participation, to (1) in the case of hospitals that meet specified market concentration thresholds, apply Medicare reimbursement rates regardless of whether the individual receiving services is entitled to or enrolled in Medicare; and (2) publish the prices charged for specified services that are highly utilized.
The bill also repeals (1) performance incentives under the Medicare Shared Savings Program for accountable care organizations, and (2) provisions under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) that prohibit physician-owned hospitals from expanding facility capacity.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-01 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House committee actions |
| 2019-02-25 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. | House committee actions |
| 2019-01-25 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House committee actions |
| 2019-01-11 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-11 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-11 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-11 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |