To prohibit hospital emergency rooms or other emergency medical care providers from charging a person whose health insurance provider does not have a negotiated deal with the provider more than 125 percent of what the insurer would pay to a provider with whom it had negotiated discounts for its customers.   Official Text and Analysis.

Refer to the Committee on Ways and Means with the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-6) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To adopt an unpublished substitute that presumably reflects different preferences on the issue.

To prohibit hospital emergency rooms or other emergency medical care providers from charging a person whose health insurance provider does not have a negotiated deal with the provider more than the average amount negotiated by the patient’s insurer, or more than 150% of the Medicare fee for service fee, with various exceptions.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To prohibit hospital emergency rooms or other emergency medical care providers from charging a person whose health insurance provider does not have a negotiated deal with the provider more than the median amount negotiated by the patient’s insurer for various medical specialties, or more than 150% of the Medicare fee for service fee, with various exceptions.

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.