US Congress House Bill 4437 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)
Status: Introduced on April 9 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-04-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Generic Drug Pricing Fairness Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each contract entered into with a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor with respect to a PDP the sponsor offers to prohibit the PDP from entering into a contract with any pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) to manage the prescription drug coverage provided under such plan, or to control the costs of the prescription drug coverage under it, unless the PBM adheres to specified criteria when handling personally identifiable utilization and claims data or other sensitive patient data. Revises requirements for contracts with PDP sponsors to require that the PDP sponsor disclose to applicable pharmacies the sources used for making any update of the prescription drug pricing standard, and if the source for such a standard is not publicly available, disclose to such pharmacies all individual drug prices to be so updated in advance of their use for the reimbursement of claims. Requires the PDP sponsor, as well, to establish a process to appeal, investigate, and resolve disputes regarding individual drug prices that are less than the pharmacy acquisition price for a drug.

Generic Drug Pricing Fairness Act

Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]
Rep. Steve Southerland [R-FL]	Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-04-09	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2014-04-09	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2014-04-09	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.

SB867 (Related) 2013-05-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB5815 (Related) 2014-12-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4437/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4437/BILLS-113hr4437ih.pdf