To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to jointly carry out a demonstration program to reduce health care costs through the sharing by medical facilities of certain services and equipment, notwithstanding any antitrust law to the contrary, and to direct the Attorney General to carry out a certificate of review process exempting eligible medical facilities from the application of certain antitrust laws.
Health Services Cost Control Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to jointly carry out a demonstration program of 20 three-year grants for collaboration among hospitals or other medical facilities regarding the provision of expensive, capital-intensive medical technology or other highly resource-intensive services. Requires that projects be designed to demonstrate a reduction in costs, an increase in access to care, and improvements in the quality of care. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Attorney General to issue a three-year certificate of review to medical facilities that enter into cooperative agreements with respect to the provision of expensive, capital-intensive medical technology or other highly resource-intensive services. Prohibits criminal or civil antitrust actions against a facility for conduct in compliance with a certificate. Allows any person injured as a result of conduct engaged in under a certificate to specified relief.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. H. Rept. 103-601, Part VII.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
See H.R.3600.
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