HR 1178
114th Congress
House
Health
Drug therapy
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015
Introduced: February 27, 2015
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 27, 2015
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.
Feb 27, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015
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 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, diagnostic radiopharmaceutical, or anesthesia drugs) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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