[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3396. Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Cochran) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3378 
proposed by Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. 
Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cornyn, 
and Mr. Durbin) to the bill S. 524, to authorize the Attorney General 
to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription 
opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. MEDICARE DIRECT PAYMENT TO PHARMACIES FOR CERTAIN 
                   COMPOUNDED DRUGS THAT ARE PREPARED BY THE 
                   PHARMACIES FOR A SPECIFIC BENEFICIARY FOR USE 
                   THROUGH AN IMPLANTED INFUSION PUMP.

       (a) In General.--The first sentence of section 1842(b)(6) 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395u(b)(6)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' before ``(H)''; and
       (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``, and (I) in the case of covered compounded 
     drugs that are prepared by a pharmacy for a specific 
     individual, are dispensed, directly or indirectly, to the 
     individual, are necessary for the effective use of, or 
     therapeutic benefit from, an implanted infusion pump 
     (regardless who refills the pump), and are billed directly by 
     the pharmacy, payment shall be made to the pharmacy''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall apply to drugs dispensed on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
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