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Prevention Through Affordable Access Act of 2009

Introduced: January 9, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Jan 14, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 9, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jan 9, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Prevention Through Affordable Access Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the best price component of the formula for determination of the Medicaid rebate for a covered single source outpatient drug or a covered innovator multiple source outpatient drug. (Under current law, best prices shall not take into account prices that are merely nominal in amount.)

Revises the list of entities to which sales by a manufacturer of covered outpatient drugs at nominal prices shall be considered to be sales at a nominal price, or merely nominal in amount (and thus excluded from computation of the best price for such drugs).

Adds to such list any entity that is: (1) operated by a health center of an institution of higher education, primarily for its students (university-based clinic); or (2) a public or private nonprofit entity that provides family planning services under the Public Health Service Act (safety-net clinic).

What's happening now January 14, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 398: Prevention Through Affordable Access Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-398/
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