Title 26, Internal Revenue CodeRelease 119-102
§9819 Maintenance of Price Comparison Tool
Title 26 › Subtitle K — Group Health Plan Requirements › CHAPTER 100 — GROUP HEALTH PLAN REQUIREMENTS › Subchapter B — Other Requirements › § 9819
Summary
Group health plans must provide phone guidance and an online tool. The tool must, when possible, let people enrolled compare their cost-sharing for an item or service from participating providers in their plan year and geographic region.
Full Legal Text
Title 26, §9819
Internal Revenue Code, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
A group health plan shall offer price comparison guidance by telephone and make available on the Internet website of the plan or issuer a price comparison tool that (to the extent practicable) allows an individual enrolled under such plan, with respect to such plan year, such geographic region, and participating providers with respect to such plan or coverage, to compare the amount of cost-sharing that the individual would be responsible for paying under such plan with respect to the furnishing of a specific item or service by any such provider.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 116–260, div. BB, title I, § 114(d), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2875, provided that: “The
Amendments
made by this section [enacting this section, section 1185h of Title 29, Labor, and section 300gg–114 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] shall apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2022.”
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Citation
26 U.S.C. § 9819
Title 26, Internal Revenue Code
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102