3.0.0 2487 2023-01-15T04:49:20Z 2023-01-15T04:49:20Z Senate S S 2004-06-02 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-06-02T18:36:24Z 2004-06-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2004-06-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000596 Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN] MARK DAYTON D MN N Health Access to health care Administrative procedure Business records Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Cost control Cost of living adjustments Department of Health and Human Services Drug industry Drugs Finance and Financial Sector Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government employees' health insurance Government paperwork Government procurement Governmental investigations Health insurance Health maintenance organizations Identification devices Imports Insurance premiums Intellectual property Labeling Law Managed care Medical economics Medicare Members of Congress Pharmacies Pharmacists Prescription pricing Product counterfeiting Product safety Quality of care Quality of products Social Welfare Wholesale trade Health 00 2004-06-02 Introduced in Senate 2004-06-24T16:38:38Z Right Prescription for Seniors Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have access to a Medicare administered prescription drug plan option.

Repeals provisions prohibiting the Secretary from interfering with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors and from requiring a particular formulary or instituting a price structure for the reimbursement of covered part D drugs.

Grants the Secretary the authority similar to that of other Federal entities that purchase prescription drugs in bulk to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered part D drugs, consistent with the requirements and in furtherance of the goals of providing quality care and containing costs. Requires the Secretary to use such authority to negotiate the prices of such drugs under prescription drug plans offered by PDP sponsors.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary to promulgate regulations allowing qualifying individuals to import covered products (in addition to pharmacists and wholesalers, whom current law authorizes to import such products).

States that the Secretary shall not have to store records in cases in which qualifying individuals have imported a covered product.

Amends provisions regarding the importation of covered products, repealing the mandate that the Secretary require that a foreign seller specify the original source of the product and the amount of each lot of the product originally received.

Amends provisions regarding the testing of imported covered products. Declares that specified tests, including ones involving authenticity and degradation of products, shall not be required unless the importer is a wholesaler. Requires such tests to be conducted by the importer unless a product is a prescription drug subject to requirements for counterfeit-resistant packaging. (Currently either the importer or the manufacturer may conduct such tests).

Eliminates the sunset date current law establishes for the provisions pertaining to the importation of covered products (thus making such provisions permanent).

Limits prescription drug benefits for Members of Congress.

]]> Right Prescription for Seniors Act of 2004 Display Title Right Prescription for Seniors Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that every medicare beneficiary has access to a medicare administered prescription drug plan option, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Right Prescription for Seniors Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-06-02T04:00:00Z 2004-06-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.