Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 2004
Latest action · Oct 25, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 7, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 2004 - Provides that antitrust laws shall apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act.
Prohibits any pharmaceutical drug manufacturer from having a controlling interest in an entity that is a pharmacy benefit manager. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose all compensation from drug manufacturers. Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from making certain drug interchanges: (1) to a drug with a greater cost; (2) without disclosure to the individual; or (3) from a drug with generic equivalents to a drug without generic equivalents, unless the latter is lower in cost than each of the generic equivalents of the drug from which the prescription would be changed.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to apply specified standards for community pharmacy access under the Medicare outpatient prescription drug program.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 7, 2004 to Nov 19, 2004; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KS | Jerry Moran | Original | Oct 7, 2004 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Nov 19, 2004 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Oct 7, 2004 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Oct 8, 2004 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Oct 7, 2004 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Oct 7, 2004 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Oct 25, 2004 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 25, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Oct 8, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Oct 7, 2004Introduced in House
- Oct 7, 2004Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act, to ensure integrity in the operation of pharmacy benefit managers, and to preserve access standards to community pharmacies under the Medicare outpatient prescription drug program.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 2004
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Antitrust law
- Business records
- Commerce
- Consumer discounts
- Consumer education
- Consumer protection
- Contracts
- Damages
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug industry
- Drug utilization
- Drugs
- Employee health benefits
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Fines (Penalties)
- Generic drugs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health care fraud
- Health insurance
- Health maintenance organizations
- Insurance companies
- Law
- Medical statistics
- Medicare
- Patients' rights
- Pharmacies
- Prescription pricing
- Restrictive trade practices
- Social Welfare
- Standards
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 7, 2004Introduced in House
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