US Congress House Bill 1409 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health plans that cover anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable cost sharing for patient-administered anticancer medications. This requirement applies to medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration that is prescribed based on a finding by the treating physician that the medication is medically necessary for cancer treatment and is clinically appropriate in terms of type, frequency, extent site, and duration. To comply with this requirement, health plans may not, for anticancer medications: (1) change or replace benefits to increase out-of-pocket costs; (2) reclassify benefits to increase costs; or (3) apply more restrictive limitations to orally administered medications than to intravenously administered or injected medications.

Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2017

Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]
Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Daniel Donovan [R-NY]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]
Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Bill Flores [R-TX]
Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]
Rep. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]
Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Lloyd Smucker [R-PA]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]
Rep. Andy Biggs [R-AZ]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]
Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Don Bacon [R-NE]
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]
Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]	Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]
Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]
Rep. Brian Mast [R-FL]	Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]
Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Paul Mitchell [R-MI]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]	Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]
Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Glenn Grothman [R-WI]	Rep. Michael Turner [R-OH]
Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Jody Hice [R-GA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. David Trott [R-MI]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R-MO]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Jack Bergman [R-MI]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Clay Higgins [R-LA]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]
Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Rep. Mike Gallagher [R-WI]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. John Katko [R-NY]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Tom Graves [R-GA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Barry Loudermilk [R-GA]	Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]	Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]
Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Drew Ferguson [R-GA]	Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]	Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]
Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA]	Rep. Fred Upton [R-MI]	Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]
Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]
Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. James Renacci [R-OH]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC]	Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. David Reichert [R-WA]
Rep. Ruben Kihuen [D-NV]	Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R-MO]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Greg Gianforte [R-MT]
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX]	Rep. Ralph Norman [R-SC]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. John Rutherford [R-FL]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]	Rep. Stephanie Murphy [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-03-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2017-03-07	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1409/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1409/BILLS-115hr1409ih.pdf