To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services issue regulations to ensure due process rights for physicians furnishing emergency medical services.

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue regulations that require a certain administrative process before hospitals may terminate or restrict the privileges of physicians who provide emergency medical services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6372 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6372

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services issue regulations 
   to ensure due process rights for physicians furnishing emergency 
                           medical services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2018

   Mr. Collins of New York (for himself, Mr. Ruiz, and Mr. Sessions) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services issue regulations 
   to ensure due process rights for physicians furnishing emergency 
                           medical services.

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

SECTION 1. REGULATIONS TO ENSURE DUE PROCESS RIGHTS FOR PHYSICIANS 
              FURNISHING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, as soon as 
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, but not later 
than one year after such date, through rulemaking, issue final 
regulations to provide that physicians who are employed by or under 
contract with a hospital for furnishing emergency medical services have 
a fair hearing and appellate review through appropriate medical staff 
mechanisms before any termination or restriction of the professional 
activity of such physicians or staff privileges of such physicians at 
such hospital and that such a hearing and review are not denied through 
a third-party contract.
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