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      "id": 102557,
      "date": "2001-01-19",
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      "title": "Patient Protection and Mandatory External Review: Amending ERISA's Claims Procedure",
      "summary": "This report discusses the existing claims procedure required by the Employee Retirement Income\nSecurity Act of 1974 (ERISA), and legislative efforts in the 106th Congress to amend ERISA to\nprovide for the mandatory external review of denied benefits. Although most of the patient\nprotection bills introduced in the 106th Congress included provisions for external review and more\nrigorous standards for the internal review of denied benefits, this report focuses on the Patients' Bill\nof Rights Plus Act of 1999,  S. 1344 , passed by the Senate on July 15, 1999, and the\nBipartisan Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act of 1999,  H.R. 2990 , passed by\nthe House of Representatives on October 7, 1999.",
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