A bill to amend title XIII of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for the establishment and expansion of health maintenance organizations.
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments - Makes the offering of supplemental health services, as defined by the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, optional by health maintenance organizations.
Eliminates the requirement imposed by such Act that health maintenance organizations offer annual open enrollment for individual membership.
Redesignates medical treatment and referral services for drug or alcohol abuse or addiction and home health services as supplemental health services for purposes of such Act.
Enables private entities to obtain federally guaranteed loans for the planning, initial development, and operation of a health maintenance organization to serve populations in addition to medically underserved populations.
Includes State and local governmental employers as among those employers which must offer employees the option of membership in a health maintenance organization.
Sets forth new procedures, penalties, and other requirements, to be applied by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare where health maintenance organizations are alleged to be in noncompliance with such Act.
Extends the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act an additional two years.
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 9019 passed in lieu.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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