H.R. 8576, Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act
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House bill 8576, the Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act, is a bill to require a study on the effects of travel nurse agencies on the health industry during the COVID–19 pandemic. Murphy of North Carolina, for himself and Miller-Meeks, introduced it on July 28, 2022, and it was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Section 2 directs the Comptroller General of the United States to study the business practices and payment practices of such agencies, including any potential price gouging and taking of excessive profits. The study also considers the extent to which travel nurse agencies have been acquired by private equity firms. A report to Congress is due not later than 1 year after enactment.
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117TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 8576
To require a study on the effects of travel nurse agencies on the health
industry during the COVID–19 pandemic.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 28, 2022
Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina (for himself and Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce
A BILL
To require a study on the effects of travel nurse agencies
on the health industry during the COVID–19 pandemic.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Travel Nursing Agency
5 Transparency Study Act’’.
6 SEC. 2. GAO STUDY ON TRAVEL NURSE AGENCIES.
7 The Comptroller General of the United States shall—
8 (1) conduct a study on the effects of travel
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1 the COVID–19 pandemic, which shall include con-
2 sideration of—
3 (A) the business practices and payment
4 practices of such agencies, including any poten-
5 tial price gouging and taking of excessive prof-
6 its;
7 (B) the difference between how much such
8 agencies charged health care institutions and
9 how much they paid their contracted nurses;
10 (C) the extent to which such agencies
11 could provide more transparency regarding the
12 payments received from health care institutions,
13 and the payments made by the agencies to the
14 nurses who are contracted by such agencies;
15 (D) the specific ways in which rural areas
16 of the United States were affected by the rise
17 of travel nursing across the country, and subse-
18 quent workforce shortage disparities;
19 (E) how States that imposed caps to travel
20 nurse pay were affected by the market reaction
21 to such caps;
22 (F) how Federal funds, including the Pro-
23 vider Relief Fund and any assistance granted to
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24 a health care institution under the Robert T.
25 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
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1 ance Act (42 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), were used by
2 health care institutions to pay such agencies
3 throughout the workforce shortages exacerbated
4 by the COVID–19 pandemic;
5 (G) the extent to which travel nurse agen-
6 cy practices contribute to workforce shortages;
7 and
8 (H) the extent to which travel nurse agen-
9 cies have been acquired by private equity firms
10 and the impact of such acquisitions on the prof-
11 its of the agencies; and
12 (2) not later than 1 year after the date of en-
13 actment of this Act, submit a report to Congress on
14 such study.
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