3.0.0 2405 2025-05-27T14:15:48Z 2025-05-27T14:15:48Z Senate S S 2023-07-20 118 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-07-20T14:32:07Z 2023-07-20 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S3461-3462) IntroReferral 2023-07-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD N B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2023-07-20 True B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2023-07-20 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2023-07-20 True P000595 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] Gary Peters D MI 2024-09-09 False Health Health 2023-08-30T21:00:25Z

00 2023-07-20 Introduced in Senate 2024-10-07T20:21:03Z <p><strong>Strengthening Pharmacy Access for Seniors Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting access to any covered drug under the Medicare prescription drug benefit to a subset of their network pharmacies except for limited access drugs.&nbsp;<em>Limited access drugs</em> are those for which the Food and Drug Administration has restricted distribution to certain facilities or physicians or for which dispensing requires extraordinary special handling, coordination, or education that a network pharmacy cannot meet.&nbsp;</p><p>PDP sponsors must annually report to the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (1) a list of drugs that the PDP sponsor designated as limited access drugs, (2) the reasons for the designations, (3) information about relevant requirements for pharmacies with respect to these drugs, and (4) the types of pharmacies dispensing these drugs.</p>

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