Congress·In Committee·H.R. 4331

Access to Claims Data Act

Health Care: Expanding Access to Medicare Claims Data

Jul 10, 2025·View on Congress.gov·Read full text

Next up: A house committeeNo action in 13 months

The House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees are responsible for reviewing this bill. It has not moved since July 2025. Because no action has occurred for over a year, the bill is considered stalled.

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Could go either way

The bill has bipartisan support and addresses a technical need for medical research, but it is currently in the early stages of the committee process.

Key Points

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a new way for medical registries to access federal health insurance records. This includes data from Medicare and potentially Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Medical researchers and doctor-led groups would use this information to study how well different treatments work. By linking insurance claims with actual patient results, they can find ways to improve the quality of care and patient safety.
To protect privacy, any research published using this data must be de-identified, meaning individual patients cannot be recognized. The groups requesting the data would also have to pay a fee to cover the government's cost of providing the records.
This policy aims to make it easier for specialized medical groups to get the data they need without jumping through as many hoops as they do now. The goal is to start this new sharing process by the beginning of 2026.

Impact Analysis

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Milestones

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Jul 10, 2025House

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.

Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.

Jul 10, 2025

Introduced in House

The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.

No votes or news coverage recorded for this bill yet.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

Access to Claims Data Act

Bill NumberHR 4331

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred 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.