Medical License Verification Act

Bill: 116-s-3290
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-02-13
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives

Health care costs and insurance

Health information and medical records

Health personnel

Licensing and registrations

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Medical License Verification Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to implement an automated system to verify whether an applicant for a unique health identifier has a valid state license to practice in a health care profession before providing the applicant with such an identifier. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3290 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 13, 2020 Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Mr. Cornyn , Mr. Van Hollen , and Ms. Cortez Masto ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to verify whether a health care provider is licensed in good standing before issuing the provider a unique health identifier, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medical License Verification Act . 2. Requirement to verify that a health care provider is licensed in good standing before issuing a unique health identifier Section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320d–2(b) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) Verification of license in good standing Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Secretary shall establish and implement an automated system that enables the Secretary to verify whether a person described in section 1172(a)(3) who is an applicant for a unique health identifier and who claims in the application to be licensed in a State is actually licensed in that State and that such license is in good standing. Such verification shall be done before providing the applicant with such an identifier. .