PHARMACEUTICAL CARE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Medicare/Medicaid

Issues related to prescription drug coverage and pharmacy benefits Regulatory and proposed legislative changes to Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits Access to prescription drugs during the coronavirus pandemic S.298 / H.R.1829: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Accountability Study Act of 2021 H.R.2410: Medicare and You Handbook Improvement Act H.R.2484: Lowest Price for Patients Act H.R.2608: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act H.R.3: Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act H.R.19: Lower Costs, More Cures Act H.R.2846: Ensuring Access to Lower-Cost Medicines for Seniors Act H.R.2855: Star Ratings for Biosimilars Act S.1523: The Drug Price Transparency Act H.R.3173: Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act S.1909 / H.R.3554: Pharmacy DIR Reform to Reduce Senior Drug Costs Act H.R.3682: Improving Transparency to Lower Drug Costs Act S.2164: Lower Costs, More Cures Act of 2021 H.R.4121: To codify a final rule issued by the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to fraud and abuse and the removal of safe harbor protection for certain drug rebates, and for other purposes H.R.4158: To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to eliminate cost sharing with respect to coverage of insulin as a covered part D drug under the Medicare program or as a covered outpatient drug under the Medicaid program H.R.2815: BIOSIM Act S.464 / H.R.2163: Safe Step Act S.1524 / H.R.3029: Health Care PRICE Transparency Act H.R.4418: SPIKE Act H.R.5237: A bill to amend titles XI, XVIII, and XIX of the Social Security Act to lower prescription drug prices in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, to improve transparency related to pharmaceutical prices and transactions, to lower patients' out-of-pocket costs, and to ensure accountability to taxpayers, and for other purposes. H.R.5260: Reduced Costs and Continued Cures Act H.R.3684: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Sec.90006, Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eliminating the anti-kickback statute safe harbor protection for prescription drug rebates H.R.5376: The Build Back Better Act, Sec. 139301, Prohibiting implementation of rule relating to eliminating the anti-kickback statute safe harbor protection for prescription drug rebates H.R.5623: The Insulin Cost Reduction Act, To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit price concessions with respect to insulin drugs and exceptions under Part D of Medicare, and for other purposes H.R.3554: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform requirements with respect to direct and indirect remuneration under Medicare part D, and for other purposes S.3700: A bill to provide for appropriate cost-sharing for insulin products covered under Medicare part D and private health plans H.R.6833: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish requirements with respect to cost-sharing for certain insulin products, and for other purposes H.R.6757: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish under the Medicare prescription drug program a minimum amount of price concessions for insulin to be passed through to beneficiaries at the point-of-sale, and for other purposes 42 CFR Part 1001 RIN 0936-AA08: Fraud and Abuse; Removal of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Creation of New Safe Harbor Protection for Certain Point-of-Sale Reductions in Price on Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Certain Pharmacy Benefit Manager Service Fees 42 CFR Parts 422 423 RIN 0938-AU30 Medicare Program; Contract Year 2003 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs Proposed Rule (CMS-4192-P)