US Congress House Bill 3613 (Prior Session Legislation)

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December 13 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to a prescription drug plan (PDP) that provides for any tiered cost-sharing within a formulary (including a structure that provides for different co-payment or coinsurance amounts for drugs in different tiers included within the formulary), to authorize a Medicare part D eligible individual enrolled in the plan to request an exception to the tiered cost-sharing structure. States that in no case may the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) allow a PDP sponsor to make any element of the tiered cost-sharing structure (including a tier used for very high cost or unique items) ineligible for lower-cost sharing through an exception.

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act

Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr.	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Carson, Andre	Rep Christensen, Donna M.
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy	Rep Conyers, John, Jr.	Rep Davis, Danny K.	Rep Deutch, Theodore E.
Rep Ellison, Keith	Rep Farr, Sam	Rep Filner, Bob	Rep Frank, Barney
Rep Fudge, Marcia L.	Rep Grijalva, Raul M.	Rep Hinchey, Maurice D.	Rep Honda, Michael M.
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila	Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr.	Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr.	Rep Kildee, Dale E.
Rep Kissell, Larry	Rep Lee, Barbara	Rep Lewis, John	Rep Michaud, Michael H.
Rep Moore, Gwen	Rep Nadler, Jerrold	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes	Rep Olver, John W.
Rep Richardson, Laura	Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille	Rep Ryan, Tim	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.
Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh	Rep Towns, Edolphus	Rep Woolsey, Lynn C.

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-12-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-12-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-12-08	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-12-08	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-12-08	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:HN03613:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3613ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3613ih.pdf