Healthcare Waiver Transparency Act of 2011

Healthcare Waiver Transparency Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish the decision to approve or deny an application for a waiver of the restrictions on a health plan's annual limit for essential health benefits on the HHS website within five business days after making such a decision and include in the notice the applicant's name, city, and state and the application date. Requires the Secretary to ensure the confidentiality of proprietary information under this Act.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2035 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2035

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for 
    greater disclosure in the process for waiving annual limitation 
                      requirements under that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2011

   Mr. Griffin of Arkansas introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for 
    greater disclosure in the process for waiving annual limitation 
                      requirements under that Act.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Healthcare Waiver Transparency Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVED TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTH CARE WAIVERS UNDER PPACA.

    Section 2711(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-
11(a)), as inserted by section 1001(5) of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Notice.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Under the waiver process 
                established by the Secretary to carry out paragraph 
                (2), within 5 business days after the date of making a 
                decision to approve or deny an application for a waiver 
                under such process the Secretary shall publicly post 
                notice of such approval or denial on the Internet 
                website of the Department of Health and Human Services 
                and shall include in the notice the name, city, and 
                State of the applicant and the date the application was 
                filed.
                    ``(B) Protection of proprietary information.--In 
                carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall 
                ensure the confidentiality of proprietary information 
                contained in such an application.''.
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