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H.R. 6100119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Nov 18, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
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The Health ACCESS Act would let providers pay online scheduling platforms without violating Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback laws, under strict conditions.
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The bill creates an exception to federal anti-kickback rules so healthcare providers can pay online scheduling and directory services for patient bookings. Platforms must follow rules barring pay-for-ranking, restricting data sharing, banning perks and unsolicited marketing, and requiring reasonable, pre-agreed, disclosed payments.
Affects healthcare providers, insurers, and companies running online doctor-finder or booking platforms, plus patients, especially those on Medicare or Medicaid.
The change could reshape how patients are matched to providers online, with safeguards intended to limit steering patients toward providers based on payment rather than fit.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — 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.