Obamacare Full Disclosure Act

Bill: 114-hr-4058
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2015-11-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-11-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Obamacare Full Disclosure Act</b></p> This bill requires a form provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to group health plans and health insurers as a template for a cancellation notice to include specified information under specified circumstances. The form must include a statement that an enrollee's plan or coverage was cancelled because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) if the plan or coverage was cancelled because it did not meet PPACA requirements or because of financial losses incurred due to PPACA requirements.

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4058 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 18, 2015 Mr. Shuster (for himself, Mr. Jones , Mr. Graves of Missouri , Mr. Massie , Mr. Duncan of Tennessee , Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania , Mr. Abraham , and Mr. King of Iowa ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To require that in cases of health insurance coverage cancelled pursuant to requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cancellation notices provided to enrollees include a statement such cancellation is because of such Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Obamacare Full Disclosure Act . 2. Health insurance coverage cancellation notices Beginning 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, in the case of a cancellation notice form provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for use as a template form for a cancellation notice to be used by a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group or individual market (as such terms are defined in section 2791 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300gg–91 )) to notify enrollees of such plan or coverage is being cancelled, if such cancellation is because the plan or coverage does not meet the requirements applied to such a plan or coverage pursuant to title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or because of financial losses incurred by the sponsor of such plan or such issuer because of such requirements, such template form shall include a statement that such plan or coverage was cancelled because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The references in the previous sentence to a group health plan and to a health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group or individual market shall be applied as including a reference to a qualified nonprofit health insurance issuer offering a qualified health plan under the CO–OP program under section 1322 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18042 ).