HR 1600
114th Congress
House
Health
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015
Introduced: March 25, 2015
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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 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 25, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 25, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish cost-sharing limits for health plans that cover prescription drugs and use a formulary or other tiered cost-sharing structure. Prohibits such a health plan from imposing higher cost-sharing requirements, including co-payment and co-insurance, for specialty drugs than for other prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier. Applies the non-preferred brand drug tier for which beneficiary cost-sharing is lowest, if a formulary used by the health plan contains more than one non-preferred brand drug tier.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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