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S 1190 114th Congress Senate

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network pharmacies under Medicare prescription drug coverage, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 5, 2015 Introduced by: Capito, Shelley Moore Republican · West Virginia See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 5, 2015
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 Latest action May 5, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 793 Identical bill Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 4
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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Jul 9, 2015
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Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Jun 22, 2015
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · May 13, 2015
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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · May 5, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1190: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1190/
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"S. 1190: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1190/.
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