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S 2980 113th Congress Senate

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify payment under the Medicare program for outpatient department procedures that utilize drugs as supplies, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 4, 2014 See on congress.gov
Health Drug therapyHealth technology, devices, suppliesHome and outpatient careMedicare
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 4, 2014
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 Latest action December 4, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create certain additional groups of covered OPD services that classify separately, from those that do not utilize such a drug, procedures that utilize a drug (other than contrast agents and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.

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  • HR 4857 Related bill Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2980: Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2980/
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"S. 2980: Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2980/.
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S. 2980, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2980/.
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