Title: PATIENTS Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Protecting Access To Information for Effective and Necessary Treatment Act or the PATIENT Act  This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, which supports research that evaluates and compares outcomes and the clinical effectiveness, risks, and benefits of two or more medical treatments, services, or other health practices. The bill also requires that research supported by the trust prioritize substance use disorders (including opioid use), mental health, and maternal health.
Additionally, the bill extends specified fees on private health insurance plans, including self-insured plans, which support the trust.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3439 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3439

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XI of the Social 
  Security Act to extend appropriations and transfers to the Patient-
  Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund and to extend certain health 
       insurance fees for such transfers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2019

  Mr. Beyer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XI of the Social 
  Security Act to extend appropriations and transfers to the Patient-
  Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund and to extend certain health 
       insurance fees for such transfers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Access To Information for 
Effective and Necessary Treatment Act'' or the ``PATIENT Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS TO THE PATIENT-CENTERED 
              OUTCOMES RESEARCH TRUST FUND; EXTENSION OF CERTAIN HEALTH 
              INSURANCE FEES.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Internal revenue code.--Section 9511 of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)(1)(E), by striking ``2014'' 
                and all that follows through ``2019'' and inserting 
                ``2014 through 2026'';
                    (B) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by striking ``2019'' 
                and inserting ``2026''; and
                    (C) in subsection (f), by striking ``2019'' and 
                inserting ``2026''.
            (2) Title xi of the social security act.--Section 
        1183(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320e-2(a)(2)) 
        is amended by striking ``2014'' and all that follows through 
        ``2019'' and inserting ``2014 through 2026''.
    (b) Extension of Certain Health Insurance Fees.--
            (1) Health insurance policies.--Section 4375(e) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``2019'' 
        and inserting ``2026''.
            (2) Self-insured health plans.--Section 4376(e) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``2019'' 
        and inserting ``2026''.
    (c) PCORI Research Priorities.--Section 1181(d)(1)(A) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320e(d)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ``Such national priorities shall include 
research with respect to substance use (including opioid use 
disorders), mental health, and maternal morbidity and mortality.''.
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