3.0.0 2999 2020-02-10T17:02:01Z 2020-02-10T17:02:01Z Senate S S 2008-05-08 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-05-08T21:54:17Z Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2007 110 2676 HR 2007-07-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2008-05-08 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-05-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH N S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA 2008-05-08 True W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2008-05-08 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2008-09-10 False Health Cancer Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clinical trials Collective bargaining Commerce Congressional reporting requirements Cost accounting Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Employee health benefits Finance and Financial Sector Health insurance Labor and Employment Labor contracts Medical economics Medical fees Medical research Patients' rights Peer review organizations (Medicine) Pharmaceutical research Science, Technology, Communications Standards Health 00 2008-05-08 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-18T18:18:24Z Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from: (1) denying an eligible participant or beneficiary participation in clinical trials related to the treatment of cancer that are federally funded or conducted under an investigational new drug application reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) denying (or limiting or imposing additional conditions on) the coverage of routine patient costs for items and services furnished in connection with such participation; or (3) discriminating against an individual on the basis of such participation. Includes as routine patient costs all items and services provided in the clinical trial that are otherwise generally available to a qualified individual, with certain exceptions.

Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the impact on group health plans and health insurance issuers of requiring them to cover routine patient care costs for individuals with serious and life threatening diseases other than cancer.

]]> Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2008 Display Title Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide coverage for individuals participating in approved cancer clinical trials. Introduced in Senate 2008-05-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2999is/xml/BILLS-110s2999is.xml 2008-05-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.