HR 4841
115th Congress
House
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Standardizing Electronic Prior Authorization for Safe Prescribing Act of 2018
Introduced: January 18, 2018
Introduced by:
Schweikert, David
Republican
· Arizona
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Everywhere this bill has been
11 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 12, 2018
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 581.
Jun 12, 2018
Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Jun 12, 2018
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 115-747, Part I.
May 9, 2018
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
May 9, 2018
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 25, 2018
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Unanimous Consent .
Apr 25, 2018
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jan 25, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 19, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 18, 2018
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.
Jan 18, 2018
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Standardizing Electronic Prior Authorization for Safe Prescribing Act of 2018
This bill requires Medicare's electronic-prescription program to provide for the secure electronic transmittal of a prior authorization request from a Medicare enrollee's prescribing health-care professional with respect to a drug covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
What's happening now
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 581.
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