US Congress House Bill 4857 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 12 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-06-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create certain additional groups of covered OPD services that classify separately, from those that do not utilize such a drug, procedures that utilize a drug (other than contrast agents and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014

Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Bill Flores [R-TX]	Rep. Tim Griffin [R-AR]
Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Mike J. Rogers [R-MI]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]
Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]	Rep. Aaron Schock [R-IL]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]
Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-06-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-06-12	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2014-06-12	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2014-06-12	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.

SB2980 (Related) 2014-12-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4857/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4857/BILLS-113hr4857ih.pdf