3.0.0 2980 2023-01-11T13:25:05Z 2023-01-11T13:25:05Z Senate S S 2014-12-04 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-12-04T21:28:08Z Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 113 4857 HR 2014-06-13 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2014-12-04 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2014-12-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ N K000360 Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL] MARK KIRK R IL STEVEN 2014-12-04 True B001135 Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] Richard Burr R NC Mauze 2014-12-04 True Health Drug therapy Health technology, devices, supplies Home and outpatient care Medicare Health 00 2014-12-04 Introduced in Senate 2015-01-08T19:48:14Z Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create certain additional groups of covered OPD services that classify separately, from those that do not utilize such a drug, procedures that utilize a drug (other than contrast agents and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.

]]> Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 Display Title Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify payment under the Medicare program for outpatient department procedures that utilize drugs as supplies, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2014 Introduced in Senate 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2980is/xml/BILLS-113s2980is.xml 2014-12-04 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.