US HB4714 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

US Congress House Bill 4714 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on March 3 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Removing Barriers to Clinical Research Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare coverage of costs associated with clinical trials. Under current law, Medicare covers routine costs of care furnished to a beneficiary enrolled in a category A (experimental) clinical trial of a medical device intended for use in the diagnosis, monitoring, or treatment of an immediately life-threatening disease or condition. The bill requires Medicare to also cover, with respect to a beneficiary enrolled in a category B (non-experimental) clinical trial, routine costs of care as well as the cost of the device under investigation. A trial of a medical device shall, for purposes of Medicare coverage, be deemed to meet the definition of a category A or category B clinical trial, as the case may be, if the trial is conducted under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's investigational use exemption.

Title

Removing Barriers to Clinical Research Act of 2016

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-03-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-03-03	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2016-03-03	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2016-03-03	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
2016-03-03	House	Introduced in House