Labor Secretary can stop paying doctors found guilty of fraud.
H.R. 8823 — Putting Patients First by Strengthening Provider Accountability in FECA Act · Filed by Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced May 14, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill lets the Labor Secretary stop paying doctors found guilty of fraud. The fraud can be in workers' comp or any federal health program. It can also be in state health programs. The rule starts 180 days after the bill becomes law. The Secretary must write rules explaining how it will work.
Who it affects
Federal workers and their families who get workers' comp are affected. They will not pay for care from doctors found guilty of fraud. The bill does not stop workers from seeing doctors.
One thing to notice
The Secretary can stop paying any doctor found guilty of fraud in federal or state health programs. States and the federal government do not have to share fraud data. Some bad doctors might not be found.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- May 14, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 14, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Jun 25, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 0”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required)…”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $5,673,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 103 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Ryan Mackenzie, who sponsored the bill, received $1,109,117 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Medical Association — $5,643,000 in 2 reports
- Workers Injury Law & Advocacy Group — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- workers' comp — Money paid to workers hurt on the job.
- found guilty of fraud — Proven in court to have lied or cheated to get money.
- federal health program — A health care program run by the U.S. government.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,522 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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