To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify the coordination of benefits among health plans.

Amends part C (Administrative Simplification) of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to standards for information transactions and data elements to provide that, for purposes of provisions on the transfer of information among health plans, the term "coordination of benefits" means provisions that meet the standards and requirements of the 1996 NAIC Group Coordination of Benefits Model Regulation.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2745 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2745

      To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify the 
              coordination of benefits among health plans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2001

  Mr. Collins (for himself and Mr. Pomeroy) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 
  in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify the 
              coordination of benefits among health plans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION RELATING TO TRANSFER OF INFORMATION AMONG 
              HEALTH PLANS.

    Section 1173(f) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d-2(f)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of this 
subsection, the term `coordination of benefits' means provisions that 
meet the standards and requirements of the 1996 NAIC Group Coordination 
of Benefits Model Regulation.''.
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