S. 5150 · 117th Congress

Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2022-11-30
Latest action
2022-11-30 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act

This bill establishes a series of requirements relating to the collection of medical debt. Among other provisions, the bill restricts the circumstances under which health care entities may initiate extraordinary collection actions, requires entities to provide detailed debt statements and payment receipts to patients, and establishes a public medical debt collection database with information about medical debt collectors.