US Congress House Bill 3613 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-1)
Status: Introduced on December 8 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-12-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health 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 (HHS) 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

Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Leonard Boswell [D-IA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]
Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Jesse Jackson [D-IL]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Dale Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Larry Kissell [D-NC]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]
Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-12-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-12-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-12-08	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-12-08	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-12-08	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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/3613/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr3613/BILLS-112hr3613ih.pdf