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HR 3613 112th Congress House Health Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Medicare Prescription drugs

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act

Introduced: December 8, 2011 Introduced by: Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" Democratic · Georgia See on congress.gov
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Dec 13, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 9, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 8, 2011
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.
Dec 8, 2011
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to a prescription drug plan (PDP) that provides for any tiered cost-sharing within a formulary (including a structure that provides for different co-payment or coinsurance amounts for drugs in different tiers included within the formulary), to authorize a Medicare part D eligible individual enrolled in the plan to request an exception to the tiered cost-sharing structure.

States that in no case may the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) allow a PDP sponsor to make any element of the tiered cost-sharing structure (including a tier used for very high cost or unique items) ineligible for lower-cost sharing through an exception.

What's happening now December 13, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 17
All 17 Democratic 6
D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · May 30, 2012
BOSWELL, LEONARD
· Dec 8, 2011
 D
Carson, André
Indiana · Dec 8, 2011
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Dec 8, 2011
FILNER, BOB
· Dec 8, 2011
FRANK, BARNEY
· Dec 8, 2011
HINCHEY, MAURICE
· Dec 8, 2011
JACKSON, JESSE
· Dec 8, 2011
Kissell, Larry
· Dec 8, 2011
 D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Dec 8, 2011
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Dec 8, 2011
OLVER, JOHN
· Dec 8, 2011
Richardson, Laura
· Dec 8, 2011
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Dec 8, 2011
SLAUGHTER, LOUISE
· Dec 8, 2011
TOWNS, EDOLPHUS
· Dec 8, 2011
WOOLSEY, LYNN
· Dec 8, 2011
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