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S 1466 114th Congress Senate Health Drug therapy Health technology, devices, supplies Home and outpatient care Medicare

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015

Introduced: May 22, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 22, 2015
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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 May 22, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1178 Identical bill Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Jul 22, 2015
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Jun 10, 2015
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Schumer, Charles E.
New York · May 22, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1466: Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1466/
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