Hospital Length of Stay Act of 1999
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 4, 1999)
Hospital Length of Stay Act of 1999 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require that group and individual health insurance coverage, as well as supplemental insurance policies under Medicare and managed care plans under Medicaid, provide coverage for hospital lengths of stay as determined by the attending health care provider in consultation with the patient.
Provides for similar application of the amendments made above under the Public Health Service Act to other health care coverage, including that afforded to: (1) enrollees in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program; (2) members and certain former members of the uniformed services and their dependents; (3) veterans; (4) participants in the Children's Health Insurance Program under SSA title XXI; and (5) Indians under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
What just happenedMar 30, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 4, 1999
- Mar 30, 1999CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Mar 26, 1999CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee - Mar 16, 1999CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Mar 4, 1999IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
Ways and Means Committee - Mar 4, 1999IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
Education and Workforce Committee - Mar 4, 1999IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
- Mar 4, 1999IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Mar 4, 1999IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 4, 1999IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House