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<item congress="117" measure-type="s" measure-number="1123" measure-id="id117s1123" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2021-04-14" update-date="2021-09-14">
<title>PING Act</title>
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<action-date>2021-04-14</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Preserving Innovation for the Next Generation Act or the PING Act</b></p> <p>This bill expresses the sense of the Senate that the current restrictions prohibiting the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services from negotiating the prices or establishing a formulary for drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit should not be repealed. The bill also prohibits the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation from testing any model that would repeal or require a waiver of such restrictions.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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