Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013
Latest action · Feb 8, 2013 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.
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish cost-sharing limits for health plans that cover prescription drugs and use a formulary or other tiered cost-sharing structure. Prohibits such a health plan from imposing cost-sharing requirements, including co-payment and co-insurance, applicable to prescription drugs in a specialty drug tier that exceed the dollar amount of cost-sharing requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier. Applies the non-preferred brand drug tier for which beneficiary cost-sharing is lowest, if a formulary used by the health plan contains more than one non-preferred brand drug tier.
Defines: (1) "non-preferred brand drug tier" as a category of prescription drugs within a tier in a formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs or preferred brand drugs, and that are not included within a specialty drug tier; and (2) "specialty drug tier" as a category of prescription drugs within a tier in a formulary for which beneficiary cost-sharing is greater than tiers for generic drugs, preferred brand drugs, or non-preferred drugs in the plan's formulary.
Cosponsors 142
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 4, 2013 to Nov 12, 2014, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Ander Crenshaw | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| R-FL | C. W. Bill Young | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| R-NJ | Jon Runyan | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Original | Feb 4, 2013 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 4, 2013Introduced in House
- Feb 4, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 4, 2013Introduced in House
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