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HR 4721 109th Congress House Health Access to health care Collection of accounts Drugs Economics and Public Finance Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Health insurance Health maintenance organizations Intergovernmental fiscal relations Managed care Medicaid Medicare Prescription pricing Social Welfare

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide Federal Medicaid funding for State costs associated with ensuring access to prescription drug benefits to part D eligible individuals.

Introduced: February 8, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Feb 17, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 8, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 8, 2006
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available to a state federal financial participation with respect to costs, including administrative costs, incurred by the state on or after January 1, 2006: (1) for medical assistance for covered part D drugs for full-benefit dual eligible individuals enrolled under a prescription drug plan under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA), or a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan under SSA title XVIII part C (Medicare+Choice Program), but who were not reasonably able to access on a timely basis any prescription drug benefits to which they were entitled under such part; and (2) which the state reasonably expected would have been covered under such part.

Directs the Secretary to provide for the recovery of the amount of federal financial participation made available to states from part D and MA-PD plans if the Secretary determines that such plans should have incurred such costs.

What's happening now February 17, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4721: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide Federal Medicaid funding for State costs associated with ensuring access to prescription drug benefits to part D eligible individuals.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4721/
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"H.R. 4721: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide Federal Medicaid funding for State costs associated with ensuring access to prescription drug benefits to part D eligible individuals.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4721/.
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H.R. 4721, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4721/.
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