Timely Bills for Patients Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6855 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6855 To ensure timely bills for patients. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2023 Mr. Gallagher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure timely bills for patients. 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 ``Timely Bills for Patients Act''. SEC. 2. TIMELY BILLS FOR PATIENTS. (a) In General.-- (1) Amendment.--Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``SEC. 399V-7. TIMELY BILLS FOR PATIENTS. ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall require-- ``(1) health care facilities, or in the case of practitioners providing services outside of such a facility, practitioners, to provide to patients a list of services r…