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HR 2999 115th Congress House Health Employee benefits and pensions Health care costs and insurance Prescription drugs

Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017

Introduced: June 22, 2017 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 23, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 22, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jun 22, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017

This bill 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. Such health plans may not impose higher cost sharing requirements, including copayment and coinsurance, for specialty drugs than for other prescription drugs in a nonpreferred brand name drug tier. If a health plan's formulary contains more than one nonpreferred brand name drug tier, the tier with the lowest cost sharing applies.

What's happening now June 23, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Democratic 10 Republican 2
D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Nov 2, 2018
 R
Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · May 16, 2018
FRELINGHUYSEN, RODNEY
· Nov 8, 2017
Comstock, Barbara
· Oct 25, 2017
 D
Raskin, Jamie
Maryland · Oct 23, 2017
Barletta, Lou
· Oct 3, 2017
 D
Pocan, Mark
Wisconsin · Jul 25, 2017
 D
Aguilar, Pete
California · Jul 12, 2017
 D
Schiff, Adam B.
California · Jun 29, 2017
 D
Clark, Katherine M.
Massachusetts · Jun 27, 2017
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Jun 27, 2017
 D
Bonamici, Suzanne
Oregon · Jun 23, 2017
 D
Pingree, Chellie
Maine · Jun 23, 2017
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Jun 22, 2017
 D
Takano, Mark
California · Jun 22, 2017
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2999: Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-2999/
MLA
"H.R. 2999: Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-2999/.
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H.R. 2999, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-2999/.
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