US Congress House Bill 2739 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 11 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act of 2015 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require a group or individual health plan that covers anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable coverage for anticancer medications administered by a patient. A plan may apply to patient-administered anticancer medications only the cost-sharing and limitations that apply to anticancer medications administered by a health care provider. These requirements apply 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 these requirements, 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 Coverage Parity Act of 2015

Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]
Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]
Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]
Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]	Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]
Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. David Trott [R-MI]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI]	Rep. Frank LoBiondo [R-NJ]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Jeff Miller [R-FL]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Tom Graves [R-GA]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]
Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Dan Benishek [R-MI]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Robert Dold [R-IL]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Bill Flores [R-TX]
Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Daniel Donovan [R-NY]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]
Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]
Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]
Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]
Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]
Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-06-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2015-06-11	House	Introduced in House

SB1566 (Same As) 2015-06-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2739/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2739/BILLS-114hr2739ih.pdf