US Congress Senate Bill 1488 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 3 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to a prescription drug plan (PDP) that provides for any tiered cost-sharing within a formulary (including a structure that provides for different co-payment or coinsurance amounts for drugs in different tiers included within the formulary), to authorize a Medicare part D eligible individual enrolled in the plan to request an exception to the tiered cost-sharing structure. States that in no case may the Secretary of Health and Human Services allow a PDP sponsor to make any element of the tiered cost-sharing structure (including a tier used for very high cost or unique items) ineligible for lower-cost sharing through an exception.

Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act

Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2624 (Related) 2015-06-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1488/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1488/BILLS-114s1488is.pdf