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This Act may be cited as the . Empowering Patients First Act of 2013 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Repeal of PPACA and health care-related HCERA provisions. Sec. 3. No mandate of guaranteed issue or community rating. Title I—Tax Incentives for Maintaining Health Insurance Coverage Sec. 101. Refundable tax credit for health insurance costs of low-income individuals. Sec. 102. Advance payment of credit as premium payment for qualified health insurance.
Sec. 103. Election of tax credit instead of alternative government or group plan benefits. Sec. 104. Deduction for qualified health insurance costs of individuals. Sec. 105. Limitation on abortion funding. Sec. 106. No government discrimination against certain health care entities. Sec. 107. Equal employer contribution rule to promote choice. Sec. 108. Limitations on State restrictions on employer auto-enrollment. Sec. 109. Credit for small employers adopting auto-enrollment and defined contribution options.
Sec. 110. HSA modifications and clarifications. Title II—Health Insurance Pooling Mechanisms for Individuals Subtitle A—Federal Grants for State Insurance Expenditures Sec. 201. Federal grants for State insurance expenditures. Subtitle B—Health Care Access and Availability Sec. 211. Expansion of access and choice through individual and small employer membership associations (IMAs). Subtitle C—Small Business Health Fairness Sec. 221. Short title. Sec. 222. Rules governing association health plans.
Sec. 223. Clarification of treatment of single employer arrangements. Sec. 224. Enforcement provisions relating to association health plans. Sec. 225. Cooperation between Federal and State authorities. Sec. 226. Effective date and transitional and other rules. Title III—Interstate Market for Health Insurance Sec. 301. Cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage. Title IV—Safety Net Reforms Sec. 401. Requiring outreach and coverage before expansion of eligibility.
Sec. 402. Easing administrative barriers to State cooperation with employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Sec. 403. Improving beneficiary choice in SCHIP. Title V—Lawsuit Abuse Reforms Sec. 501. Change in burden of proof based on compliance with best practice guidelines. Sec. 502. State grants to create administrative health care tribunals. Sec. 503. Authorization of payment of future damages to claimants in health care lawsuits. Sec. 504. Definitions. Sec. 505. Effect on other laws.
Sec. 506. Applicability; effective date. Title VI—Wellness and Prevention Sec. 601. Providing financial incentives for treatment compliance. Title VII—Transparency and Insurance Reform Measures Sec. 701. Receipt and response to requests for claim information. Title VIII—Quality Sec. 801. Prohibition on certain uses of data obtained from comparative effectiveness research or from patient-centered outcomes research; accounting for personalized medicine and differences in patient treatment response.
Sec. 802. Establishment of performance-based quality measures. Title IX—State Transparency Plan Portal Sec. 901. Providing information on health coverage options and health care providers. Title X—Patient Freedom of Choice Sec. 1001. Guaranteeing freedom of choice and contracting for patients under Medicare. Sec. 1002. Preemption of State laws limiting charges for eligible professional services. Sec. 1003. Health care provider licensure cannot be conditioned on participation in a health plan.
Sec. 1004. Bad debt deduction for doctors to partially offset the cost of providing uncompensated care required to be provided under amendments made by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Sec. 1005. Right of contract with health care providers. Title XI—Incentives to reduce physician shortages Subtitle A—Federally Supported Student Loan Funds for Medical Students Sec. 1101. Federally supported student loan funds for medical students. Subtitle B—Loan Forgiveness for Primary Care Providers Sec. 1111.
Loan forgiveness for primary care providers. Title XII—Quality Health Care Coalition Sec. 1201. Quality Health Care Coalition. Title XIII—Offsets Subtitle A—Discretionary spending limits Sec. 1301. Discretionary spending limits. Subtitle B—Savings from health care efficiencies Sec. 1311. Medicare DSH report and payment adjustments in response to coverage expansion. Sec. 1312. Reduction in Medicaid DSH. Subtitle C—Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Sec. 1321. Provide adequate funding to HHS OIG and HCFAC.
Sec. 1322. Improved enforcement of the Medicare secondary payor provisions. Sec. 1323. Strengthen Medicare provider enrollment standards and safeguards. Sec. 1324. Tracking banned providers across State lines.