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SB 152 – Utah
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill enacts provisions related to health benefit plan cost sharing.
HB 570 – Utah
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill modifies existing legislation regarding health care facilities in Utah. It sets specific standards for different types of facilities like general acute hospitals, specialty hospitals, home health agencies, and freestanding emergency departments. Notably, the […]
SB 1833 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill aims to amend several titles of the Tennessee Code Annotated, seeking to prohibit healthcare providers from reporting a patient’s medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. It also bars consumer reporting agencies from […]
HB 2017 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill proposes amendments to various titles of the Tennessee Code Annotated, specifically related to credit data. The key focus of the bill is to prohibit healthcare providers from reporting a patient’s medical debt to […]
SB 855 – South Carolina
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
A joint resolution to establish the healthcare market reform study committee, to provide for the study committee’s membership and the committee’s affiliated nonvoting advisory board, to provide that the committee shall study whether to recommend […]
H 4988 – South Carolina
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill proposes the “South Carolina Medicaid Buy-in Act”, aiming to establish a Medicaid buy-in program in South Carolina. The program would provide quality, affordable health insurance to specific state residents who are currently ineligible […]
SB 2628 (Companion Bill HB 8242) – Rhode Island
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, “the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program” (RICHIP).
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Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill enacts provisions related to health benefit plan cost sharing.
HB 570 – Utah
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill modifies existing legislation regarding health care facilities in Utah. It sets specific standards for different types of facilities like general acute hospitals, specialty hospitals, home health agencies, and freestanding emergency departments. Notably, the […]
SB 1833 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill aims to amend several titles of the Tennessee Code Annotated, seeking to prohibit healthcare providers from reporting a patient’s medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. It also bars consumer reporting agencies from […]
HB 2017 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill proposes amendments to various titles of the Tennessee Code Annotated, specifically related to credit data. The key focus of the bill is to prohibit healthcare providers from reporting a patient’s medical debt to […]
SB 855 – South Carolina
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
A joint resolution to establish the healthcare market reform study committee, to provide for the study committee’s membership and the committee’s affiliated nonvoting advisory board, to provide that the committee shall study whether to recommend […]
H 4988 – South Carolina
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
This bill proposes the “South Carolina Medicaid Buy-in Act”, aiming to establish a Medicaid buy-in program in South Carolina. The program would provide quality, affordable health insurance to specific state residents who are currently ineligible […]
SB 2628 (Companion Bill HB 8242) – Rhode Island
Introduced: 2024 Status: Inactive / Dead
Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, “the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program” (RICHIP).
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Merck & Co., Inc. v. Becerra, et al. – Federal
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Pending
A complaint filed by Merck, a multinational pharmaceutical company, alleges that the drug price negotiation process detailed in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) violates the […]
Braidwood Management Inc., et al. v. Becerra, et al. – Federal
District Court: Northern District of Texas Status: Pending
Braidwood Management, an organization that represents Christian businesses based in Texas, and a group of individuals from Texas filed a complaint to challenge parts of […]
Texas et al. v. United States of America et al. – California, Federal, Texas
District Court: Northern District of Texas Status: Decided
[Consolidated with California et al. v. Texas et al. for Supreme Court review] This case arises out of the Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. […]
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District Court: District of Columbia Status: Pending
A complaint filed by Merck, a multinational pharmaceutical company, alleges that the drug price negotiation process detailed in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) violates the […]
Braidwood Management Inc., et al. v. Becerra, et al. – Federal
District Court: Northern District of Texas Status: Pending
Braidwood Management, an organization that represents Christian businesses based in Texas, and a group of individuals from Texas filed a complaint to challenge parts of […]
Texas et al. v. United States of America et al. – California, Federal, Texas
District Court: Northern District of Texas Status: Decided
[Consolidated with California et al. v. Texas et al. for Supreme Court review] This case arises out of the Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. […]
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