HR 2999 · 115th Congress · Health

Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017

Introduced 2017-06-22· Sponsored by Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.(2017-06-23)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish cost sharing limits for health plans that cover prescription drugs and use a formulary or other tiered cost sharing structure. Such health plans may not impose higher cost sharing requirements, including copayment and coinsurance, for specialty drugs than for other prescription drugs in a nonpreferred brand name drug tier. If a health plan's formulary contains more than one nonpreferred brand name drug tier, the tier with the lowest cost sharing applies.…

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Cosponsors (20)

19 Democrats1 Republican