US Congress Senate Bill 1466 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 22 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance 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

Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]
Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-22	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1178 (Same As) 2015-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1466/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1466/BILLS-114s1466is.pdf