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Encouraging Innovative Benefit Design to Lower Costs for Seniors Act

Introduced: December 10, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 10, 2019
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Encouraging Innovative Benefit Design to Lower Costs for Seniors Act

This bill allows prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors under the Medicare prescription drug benefit to offer additional plans in a region.

Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must update guidance to allow PDP sponsors to offer up to four plans in a region; the CMS may also set a greater limit, as appropriate.

PDP sponsors may offer up to two additional plans beyond this limit if the PDP sponsor ensures that, under at least one of the plans, pharmacy benefit managers do not receive any remuneration unless at least 10% of price reductions received from drug manufacturers are reflected at the point-of-sale or otherwise used to reduce beneficiary cost-sharing.

What's happening now December 10, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 19 Related bill Lower Costs, More Cures Act of 2019
  • S 3129 Related bill Lower Costs, More Cures Act of 2019
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2
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Kennedy, John
Louisiana · Sep 15, 2020
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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Dec 10, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3013: Encouraging Innovative Benefit Design to Lower Costs for Seniors Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3013/
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"S. 3013: Encouraging Innovative Benefit Design to Lower Costs for Seniors Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3013/.
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