Bills · HR 6801
IN COMMITTEE· 119TH CONGRESS
House BillHR 6801Health
American Citizenship Healthcare Integrity Act of 2025
INTRO DEC 17· LAST ACTION DEC 17
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WHAT THE BILL DOES
AI-writtenVoters should care about this bill because it introduces a new requirement that could impact every person seeking hospital care by adding a question about citizenship to standard intake forms. It also aims to provide new data on a specific segment of healthcare costs. If this bill becomes law, there will be more transparency about the financial impact of uncompensated care for non-citizens on hospitals and federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid. This could fuel ongoing policy discussions about immigration, healthcare funding, and who bears the cost of medical services.
If the bill does not become law, hospitals will not be required to ask about citizenship status or report on the costs of care for non-citizens. The public would not have this specific federal data, and the current system of reporting on overall uncompensated care (without specific breakdowns by citizenship) would continue. The debate over healthcare costs for non-citizens would likely remain based on existing estimates rather than new, federally collected data.
KEY PROVISIONS
3AI-extractedPROVISION 01
Hospitals that participate in Medicare must ask all patients about their citizenship status on intake forms.
This introduces a new, mandatory question for all patients at a wide range of hospitals across the country.
PROVISION 02
Participating hospitals must annually report to the government on the number of non-citizen patients treated and the dollar amount of uncompensated care provided to them.
This creates new data collection and reporting requirements for hospitals and aims to quantify specific healthcare costs.
PROVISION 03
The Secretary of Health and Human Services must compile and publicly release an annual report detailing the total uncompensated care costs for non-citizens and related federal expenditures under Medicare and Medicaid.
This makes specific data about healthcare costs for non-citizens publicly available, which could inform policy and public discourse.
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R· South Carolina
YRS IN OFFICE
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ACTION TIMELINE
2 EVENTSDEC 17
Introduced in House
DEC 17
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
BILL INFO
TypeHouse Bill
NumberHR 6801
Congress119th
StatusIn Committee
IntroducedDec 17, 2025
Last actionDec 17, 2025
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IN COMMITTEE· 119TH CONGRESS · WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE · INTRODUCED DEC 17, 2025
House BillHR 6801Health
American Citizenship Healthcare Integrity Act of 2025
INTRODUCED DEC 17, 2025· LAST ACTION DEC 17, 2025
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READING
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COSPONSORS
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