HR 4928
109th Congress
House
Health
Coinsurance
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Medicare Doughnut Hole Assistance Act of 2006
Introduced: March 9, 2006
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 17, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 9, 2006
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.
Mar 9, 2006
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Doughnut Hole Assistance Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program ) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to count expenses for nonformulary covered part D drugs against the Medicare annual out-of-pocket threshold for costs for such drugs.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1