US Congress Senate Bill 1190 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: Introduced on May 5 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]
Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB793 (Same As) 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1190/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1190/BILLS-114s1190is.pdf