HR 758
107th Congress
House
Health
Ambulatory care
Breast cancer
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug industry
Drug therapy
Drugs
Governmental investigations
Hospices (Terminal care)
Life expectancy
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Social Welfare
Terminally ill
Women
Women's health
Breast Cancer Prescription Drug Fairness Act of 2001
Introduced: February 27, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 14, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 7, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 27, 2001
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 27, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Breast Cancer Prescription Drug Fairness Act of 2001 - Requires each participating manufacturer of a covered outpatient drug to make available for purchase by each pharmacy a covered outpatient drug: (1) in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the covered outpatient drug sold or distributed by the pharmacy to Medicare beneficiaries (including the amount sold or distributed to Medicare beneficiaries in a hospice program); and (2) at a price equal to the lower of either the lowest price paid for the drug by the Federal Government or the manufacturer's best price for the drug.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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