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Legislative and regulatory issues related to preventing surprise medical bills and lowering health care costs, including implementation of H.R.133, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L.116-260); H.R. 9572, Enhanced Enforcement of Health Coverage Act; S. 5535, A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase penalties for group health plans and health insurance issuers for practices that violate balance billing requirements, and for other purposes.

Health Savings Account issues; S. 655, Chronic Disease Management Act; S. 1001 / H.R. 1843, Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023; S. 731, TELEHEALTH HSA Act of 2023; H.R. 3800 / S. 3224, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act; H.R. 5688, Bipartisan HSA Improvements Act of 2023; H.R. 5687, HSA Modernization Act of 2023; H.R. 10445, Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025; H.R. 10545, American Relief Act, 2025.

Legislative and regulatory issues including: improvements to Health Savings Accounts coupled with high deductible health plans, Medicare and Medicare Advantage, low-value care, and payment reform; S. 655, the Chronic Disease Management Act; H.R. 3800 / S. 3224, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act; Requested expansion of IRS Notice 2019-45; Requested expansion of IRS Notice 2013-57.

Legislative and regulatory policy proposals to protect employer-sponsored health care coverage; S. 655, Chronic Disease Management Act; S. 1001 / H.R. 1843, Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023; S. 731, TELEHEALTH HSA Act of 2023; H.R. 3800 / S. 3224, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act; H.R. 3237, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require each off-campus outpatient department of a provider to include a unique identifier on claims for items and services, and to require providers with a department of a provider to submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services an attestation with respect to each such department; H.R. 3417, the FAIR Act; H.R. 3561, the Promoting Access to Treatments and Increasing Extremely Needed Transparency Act of 2023 or the PATIENT Act of 2023; H.R. 4509, the Transparency in Billing Act; S. 1869, the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement Act; S. 1451 / H.R. 3120, the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act; H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act; S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act; H.R. 10445, Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025; H.R. 10545, American Relief Act, 2025.

Legislative and regulatory issues, including: Health care reform; Legislative and regulatory policy proposals to protect employer-sponsored health care coverage; S. 655, Chronic Disease Management Act; S. 1001 / H.R. 1843, Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023; S. 731, TELEHEALTH HSA Act of 2023; H.R. 3800 / S. 3224, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act; H.R. 824, the Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act of 2023; H.R. 3237, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require each off-campus outpatient department of a provider to include a unique identifier on claims for items and services, and to require providers with a department of a provider to submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services an attestation with respect to each such department; H.R. 3417, the FAIR Act; H.R. 3561, the Promoting Access to Treatments and Increasing; Extremely Needed Transparency Act of 2023 or the PATIENT Act of 2023; S. 1869, the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement Act; S. 1451 / H.R. 3120, the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act; S. 1339, the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act; Legislative and regulatory issues related to preventing surprise medical bills and lowering health care costs, including implementation of H.R.133, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L.116-260); H.R. 5688, Bipartisan HSA Improvements Act of 2023; H.R. 5687, HSA Modernization Act of 2023; H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act; S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act; H.R. 9572, Enhanced Enforcement of Health Coverage Act; H.R. 10445, Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025; H.R. 10545, American Relief Act, 2025; S. 5535, A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase penalties for group health plans and health insurance issuers for practices that violate balance billing requirements, and for other purposes.

Legislative and regulatory issues related to preventing surprise medical bills and lowering health care costs, including implementation of H.R.133, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L.116-260).

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