Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide pharmacy payment of certain services.
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Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
This bill provides for permanent coverage under Medicare of certain pharmacist services.
Specifically, the bill provides for permanent coverage of testing and treatment services provided by pharmacists relating to (1) COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat); and (2) other public health needs in relation to a declared public health emergency. (Similar authorities were temporarily granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency.) Such services must be provided in accordance with the applicable state laws governing pharmacists' scope of practice.
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- NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION
- CVS HEALTH (AND SUBSIDIARIES)
- SENIOR CARE PHARMACY COALITION
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS
- FOOD MARKETPLACE INC.
- MCKESSON CORPORATION & ITS AFFILIATE U.S. ONCOLOGY
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- White House Office
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3164: Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3164/
"H.R. 3164: Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3164/.
H.R. 3164, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3164/.
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