S 1044
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017
Introduced: May 4, 2017
Introduced by:
Capito, Shelley Moore
Republican
· West Virginia
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 4, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 4, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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