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Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014

H.R. 5610 · 113th Congress · Sep 18, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide privacy protections that enable certain individuals to remove their profiles from the healthcare.gov website, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014”.

Sec. 2 Enabling certain individuals to remove their profiles from the healthcare.gov website

Section 1311(c)(5) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(c)(5)) is amended—
(1)
in subparagraph (A), by striking at the end “and”;
(2)
by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and
(3)
by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph:

“(B) ensure that such Internet portal, whether the healthcare.gov website or a successor website, enables an individual who enters personal information on such website for purposes of enrolling for health care coverage to remove such information from such website if such individual decides not to apply for such enrollment; and”