3.0.0 1044 2023-01-11T13:36:30Z 2023-01-11T13:36:30Z Senate S 2017-05-04 115 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-04T16:44:58Z Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017 115 1939 HR 2017-04-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2017-05-04 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2017-05-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore N B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2017-05-04 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2017-05-04 True M001183 Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] Joseph Manchin D WV 2017-05-04 True B001236 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] John Boozman R AR 2017-06-19 False W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2017-08-02 False Health Health care costs and insurance Medicare Prescription drugs Retail and wholesale trades Health 00 2017-05-04 Introduced in Senate 2018-05-17T20:03:19Z Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017

This bill modifies requirements regarding access to preferred pharmacies (i.e., pharmacies that provide reduced enrollee cost sharing for prescription drugs) under a Medicare prescription drug plan (PDP).

Specifically, if a Medicare PDP has, in its pharmacy network, one or more preferred pharmacies located in a health shortage or medically underserved area, then the PDP sponsor must allow any pharmacy in the health shortage or medically underserved area to join the preferred pharmacy network under comparable terms and conditions.

]]> Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017 Display Title Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017 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 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1044is/xml/BILLS-115s1044is.xml 2017-05-04 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.