US HB460 | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress

US Congress House Bill 460 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 110-32-1)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish cost-sharing limits for health plans that cover prescription drugs and use a formulary or other tiered cost-sharing structure. Prohibits such a health plan from imposing cost-sharing requirements, including co-payment and co-insurance, applicable to prescription drugs in a specialty drug tier that exceed the dollar amount of cost-sharing requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier. Applies the non-preferred brand drug tier for which beneficiary cost-sharing is lowest, if a formulary used by the health plan contains more than one non-preferred brand drug tier. Defines: (1) "non-preferred brand drug tier" as a category of prescription drugs within a tier in a formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs or preferred brand drugs, and that are not included within a specialty drug tier; and (2) "specialty drug tier" as a category of prescription drugs within a tier in a formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs, preferred brand drugs, or non-preferred drugs in the plan's formulary.

Title

Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013

Sponsors

Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. Spencer Bachus [R-AL]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]
Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]
Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]
Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]
Rep. Howard Coble [R-NC]	Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA]	Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R-FL]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]
Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]
Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. William Enyart [D-IL]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]
Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Joe Garcia [D-FL]	Rep. Jim Gerlach [R-PA]
Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Michael Grimm [R-NY]
Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]
Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]
Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]
Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Tom Latham [R-IA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Edward Royce [R-CA]
Rep. Jon Runyan [R-NJ]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]	Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]
Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. John Tierney [D-MA]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA]	Rep. C.W. Young [R-FL]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]