Lowering Medicare Premiums and Prescription Drug Costs Act
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Lowering Medicare Premiums and Prescription Drug Costs Act
This bill transfers certain programs that provide Medicare premium and cost-sharing assistance for low-income individuals from Medicaid to Medicare.
Specifically, the bill establishes a program under Medicare to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with premiums, coinsurance, deductibles, and other costs. Currently, such assistance is provided through Medicare Savings Programs, which are administered by state Medicaid programs.
The bill also establishes a related special enrollment period under Medicare, expands eligibility for assistance to beneficiaries with income up to 200% of the federal poverty line, and provides for joint eligibility determinations with respect to the bill's program and the low-income subsidy program under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1844: Lowering Medicare Premiums and Prescription Drug Costs Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1844/
"S. 1844: Lowering Medicare Premiums and Prescription Drug Costs Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1844/.
S. 1844, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1844/.
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