US Congress Senate Bill 117 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-01-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to Medicare part D prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and MedicareAdvantage (MA) organizations for covered part D drugs for part D eligible individuals who are enrolled under a PDP or under an MA-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan.

Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2013

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Tim Johnson [D-SD]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1102 (Same As) 2013-04-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/117/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s117/BILLS-113s117is.pdf