Plans must let patients switch if they drop doctors or drugs mid-year.
S. 4924 — Preserving Patient Access Act · Filed by Jacky Rosen (D-NV) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill stops plans from dropping doctors mid-year. If a patient saw a doctor in the past 2 years, the plan cannot drop that doctor. If a plan removes a medicine the patient takes, the patient can switch plans.
Who it affects
Patients gain protection against losing their doctors or medicines mid-year. Health insurance plans must follow new rules about dropping doctors and medicines.
One thing to notice
Plans may make big changes at yearly sign-up time instead. Plans might raise prices to pay for keeping doctors and medicines.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 9, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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