(1) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shall, in consultation with stakeholders, conduct a study and submit to the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, and the Senate Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions a report on the usefulness and feasibility of the establishment of a provider tool by a group health plan, or a health insurance issuer offering group and individual health insurance coverage, in facilitating the provision of information made available pursuant to the amendments made by subsection (a). Such report shall include the following: (A) A description of the feasibility of establishing a requirement for the various types of plans and coverage to offer such a provider tool, including any challenges to establishing a provider tool using the same technology platform as the self-service tool described in such amendments. (B) An evaluation on the usefulness of a provider tool to aid patient-decision making and how such tool would coordinate with other information available to a patient and their provider under other Federal requirements in place or under consideration. (C) An evaluation of whether the information provided by such tool would be duplicative of the advanced explanation of benefits required under Federal law or any other existing requirement. (D) A description of the usability and expected utilization of such tool among providers, including among different provider types. (E) An analysis of the impact of a provider tool in value-based care arrangements. (F) An analysis on the potential impact of the provider tool on— (i) patients’ out-of-pocket spending