Congress 107 - HR 758 - Breast Cancer Prescription Drug Fairness Act of 2001

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Ambulatory care Breast cancer Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Drug industry Drug therapy Drugs Governmental investigations Health Hospices (Terminal care) Life expectancy Medicare Pharmacies Prescription pricing Price discrimination Social Welfare Terminally ill Women Women's health

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Breast Cancer Prescription Drug Fairness Act of 2001 - Requires each participating manufacturer of a covered outpatient drug to make available for purchase by each pharmacy a covered outpatient drug: (1) in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the covered outpatient drug sold or distributed by the pharmacy to Medicare beneficiaries (including the amount sold or distributed to Medicare beneficiaries in a hospice program); and (2) at a price equal to the lower of either the lowest price paid for the drug by the Federal Government or the manufacturer's best price for the drug.

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Mar 14, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 7, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 27, 2001

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.
Feb 27, 2001

Introduced in House

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