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S 1044 115th Congress Senate

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network pharmacies under Medicare prescription drug coverage, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 19, 2017 Introduced by: Capito, Shelley Moore Republican · West Virginia See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 4, 2017
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 Latest action May 4, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1939 Related bill Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 3
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Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Aug 2, 2017
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · Jun 19, 2017
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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · May 4, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1044: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1044/
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"S. 1044: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1044/.
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