US Congress House Bill 1178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create certain additional groups of covered OPD services that classify separately, from those that do not utilize such a drug, procedures that utilize a drug (other than contrast agents, diagnostic radiopharmaceutical, or anesthesia drugs) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015

Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]
Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]
Rep. Robert Dold [R-IL]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]
Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]	Rep. Bill Flores [R-TX]	Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]
Rep. Mimi Walters [R-CA]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]
Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]
Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]	Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]
Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-27	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-27	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-02-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
2015-02-27	House	Introduced in House

SB1466 (Same As) 2015-05-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1178/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1178/BILLS-114hr1178ih.pdf