3.0.0 885 2023-01-11T19:45:59Z 2023-01-11T19:45:59Z Senate S S 2007-03-14 110 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-14T22:26:34Z Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 110 971 HR 2008-09-28 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 579. Related bill CRS Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 110 2161 S 2007-10-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2007-03-14 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2007-03-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000055 Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] Johnny Isakson R GA N J000177 Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] TIM JOHNSON D SD 2007-09-20 False Law Antitrust law Commerce Contracts Employee health benefits Finance and Financial Sector Health Health insurance Health maintenance organizations Labor and Employment Pharmacies Prescription pricing Restrictive trade practices Law 00 2007-03-14 Introduced in Senate 2007-05-14T17:14:51Z Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 - Entitles independent pharmacies negotiating contract terms with a health plan for the provision of health care items or services to the same treatment under the antitrust laws as the treatment to which bargaining units recognized under the National Labor Relations Act are entitled. Treats such a pharmacy as an employee engaged in concerted activities in connection with such negotiations.

Exempts actions taken in good faith reliance on this Act from being subject under the antitrust laws to criminal sanctions or civil penalties beyond actual damages incurred.

Confers no new right to participate in any collective cessation of service to patients not already permitted by existing law.

Prohibits: (1) exempting from the antitrust laws any agreement or otherwise unlawful conspiracy that excludes, limits the participation or reimbursement of, or otherwise limits the scope of services to be provided by any independent pharmacy or group of independent pharmacies with respect to the performance of services that are within their scope of practice as defined or permitted by relevant law or regulation; and (2) applying this Act to negotiations between independent pharmacies and health plans pertaining to federal health benefits.

]]> Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill 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. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s885is/xml/BILLS-110s885is.xml 2007-03-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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.