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S 2405 118th Congress Senate Health

Strengthening Pharmacy Access for Seniors Act

Introduced: July 20, 2023 Introduced by: Thune, John Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S3461-3462)
Jul 20, 2023
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Strengthening Pharmacy Access for Seniors Act

This bill prohibits prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting access to any covered drug under the Medicare prescription drug benefit to a subset of their network pharmacies except for limited access drugs. Limited access drugs are those for which the Food and Drug Administration has restricted distribution to certain facilities or physicians or for which dispensing requires extraordinary special handling, coordination, or education that a network pharmacy cannot meet. 

PDP sponsors must annually report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (1) a list of drugs that the PDP sponsor designated as limited access drugs, (2) the reasons for the designations, (3) information about relevant requirements for pharmacies with respect to these drugs, and (4) the types of pharmacies dispensing these drugs.

What's happening now July 20, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S3461-3462)

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Peters, Gary C.
Michigan · Sep 9, 2024
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Jul 20, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2405: Strengthening Pharmacy Access for Seniors Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2405/
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"S. 2405: Strengthening Pharmacy Access for Seniors Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2405/.
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S. 2405, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-2405/.
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