3.0.0 1190 2023-01-11T13:31:13Z 2023-01-11T13:31:13Z Senate S 2015-05-05 114 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-05-05T15:39:54Z Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 114 793 HR 2015-02-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2015-05-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2015-05-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore N M001183 Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] Joseph Manchin D WV 2015-05-05 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2015-05-05 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2015-05-05 True B001236 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] John Boozman R AR 2015-05-13 False V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2015-06-03 False U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM 2015-06-16 False W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2015-06-22 False M000934 Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] Jerry Moran R KS 2015-07-09 False G000562 Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO] Cory Gardner R CO 2015-07-28 False C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2015-08-06 False Health Health care costs and insurance Medicare Prescription drugs Retail and wholesale trades Health 00 2015-05-05 Introduced in Senate 2015-06-01T16:45:04Z Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

]]> Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 Display Title Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network pharmacies under Medicare prescription drug coverage, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1190is/xml/BILLS-114s1190is.xml 2015-05-05 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.