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
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
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
Plain-English summary
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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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