HR 1939
115th Congress
House
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017
Introduced: April 5, 2017
Introduced by:
Griffith, H. Morgan
Republican
· Virginia
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 7, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 5, 2017
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.
Apr 5, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017
This bill modifies requirements regarding access to preferred pharmacies (i.e., pharmacies that provide reduced enrollee cost sharing for prescription drugs) under a Medicare prescription drug plan (PDP).
Specifically, if a Medicare PDP has, in its pharmacy network, one or more preferred pharmacies located in a health shortage or medically underserved area, then the PDP sponsor must allow any pharmacy in the health shortage or medically underserved area to join the preferred pharmacy network under comparable terms and conditions.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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