To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations by groups of health care professionals and certain other associations that are engaged in negotiations with health maintenance organizations and other health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act.
Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1998 - Entitles the members of any group of health care professionals, or of any association maintaining an arrangement to which State licensure laws do not apply by reason of supersession of State law by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which is negotiating to purchase coverage from a State licensed health insurance issuer, to the same treatment under antitrust laws as that which is accorded to members of a collective bargaining unit recognized under the National Labor Relations Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Committee Hearings Held.
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