To amend section 552a of title 5, United States Code, to provide for the maintenance of certain health information in cases where a health care facility has closed or a health benefit plan sponsor has ceases to do business.

Summary

Amends Federal law to require States to establish a process under which certain health information maintained by any of the following entities is delivered to and maintained by the State or an individual or entity designated by the State: (1) a closed health care facility previously located in the State; (2) a closed professional practice previously operated by a health care provider; or (3) a health benefit plan sponsor that previously provided benefits in the form of items and services to enrollees in the State and has ceased to do business. Makes noncomplying States ineligible for purposes of any contract to which the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 applies.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 January 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 January 1999

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 January 1999

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.