Healthy Competition for Better Care Act

This bill would bar health insurers and employer group health plans from signing contracts with health care providers, provider networks, or plan administrators that include certain terms. Banned terms include ones that stop a plan from steering patients to other providers or offering incentives to use specific providers, ones that require the plan to also contract with or set rates for the provider's affiliates, and ones that stop other plans from paying lower rates. The steering limits would not apply to certain HMOs that work mainly through exclusive physician groups or to value-based networks such as accountable care organizations. Federal agencies would write rules within 1 year, and the ban would apply to contracts signed, changed, or renewed starting 18 months after the law is enacted.

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Sponsors

• Jodey C. Arrington Republican sponsor
• 5 cosponsors