US Congress House Bill 1055 (Prior Session Legislation)

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March 17 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor offering a PDP or a MedicareAdvantage (MA) organization offering an MA-PD plan to offer coverage of covered part D drugs for uses that are determined to be for medically accepted indications based upon: (1) guidance provided by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for determining accepted uses of covered part D drugs; and (2) supportive clinical evidence in peer reviewed medical literature.

Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act

Rep Thornberry, Mac	Rep Bucshon, Larry	Rep Burgess, Michael C.	Rep Carnahan, Russ
Rep Gonzalez, Charles A.	Rep Hayworth, Nan A. S.	Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr.	Rep Michaud, Michael H.

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-03-15	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-03-11	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-03-11	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-03-11	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN01055:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1055ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1055ih.pdf