Title: Provider Payment Sunshine Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Provider Payment Sunshine Act
This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to expand reporting requirements related to the transparency of physician ownership or investment interests.
Under current law, a manufacturer of drugs, devices, or medical supplies that are covered under Medicaid or Medicare must regularly report on any payment or transfer of value by the manufacturer to a “covered recipient,” defined as either a physician who is not an employee of the manufacturer or a teaching hospital. The bill expands the definition of “covered recipient” to also include any of the following practitioners who is not an employee of the manufacturer: (1) a physician assistant, (2) a nurse practitioner, (3) a clinical nurse specialist, (4) certified registered nurse anesthetist, or (5) a certified nurse-midwife.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 308 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 308

  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require applicable 
    manufacturers to include information regarding payments made to 
 physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other advance practice 
 nurses in transparency reports submitted under section 1128G of such 
                                  Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 2017

Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require applicable 
    manufacturers to include information regarding payments made to 
 physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other advance practice 
 nurses in transparency reports submitted under section 1128G of such 
                                  Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Provider Payment Sunshine Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF INFORMATION REGARDING PAYMENTS TO ADVANCE PRACTICE 
              NURSES IN TRANSPARENCY REPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1128G(e)(6) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320a-7h(e)(6)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end the following 
        new clauses:
                            ``(iii) A physician assistant, nurse 
                        practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist (as 
                        such terms are defined in section 1861(aa)(5)).
                            ``(iv) A certified registered nurse 
                        anesthetist (as defined in section 
                        1861(bb)(2)).
                            ``(v) A certified nurse-midwife (as defined 
                        in section 1861(gg)(2)).''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, physician 
        assistant, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, 
        certified nurse anesthetist, or certified nurse-midwife'' after 
        ``physician''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to information required to be submitted under 
section 1128G of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7h) on the 
90th day of each calendar year beginning with 2019.
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