119th Congress Health
H.R. 1492: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to equalize the negotiation period between small-molecule and biologic candidates under the Drug Price Negotiation Program.
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Summary
This bill lengthens the amount of time for which drug products must have market approval in order for the products to qualify for negotiation under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.
The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs under Medicare beginning in 2026. Among other requirements, drugs must have had market approval for at least 7 years (for drug products) or 11 years (for biologics) to qualify for negotiation.
The bill modifies these provisions so as to require drug products to also have had at least 11 years of market approval in order to qualify for negotiation.
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The bill's changes apply retroactively.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Donald Davis D-NCOriginal
- Richard Hudson R-NCOriginal
- Vern Buchanan R-FL
- Dan Crenshaw R-TX
- Neal Dunn R-FL
- Thomas Kean R-NJ
- Nicole Malliotakis R-NY
- Carol Miller R-WV
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks R-IA
- Tim Moore R-NC
- Claudia Tenney R-NY
- Beth Van Duyne R-TX
- Rudy Yakym R-IN
- Nathaniel Moran R-TX
- August Pfluger R-TX
- James Comer R-KY
- Brian Fitzpatrick R-PA
- Andy Harris R-MD
- Addison McDowell R-NC
- Rick Allen R-GA
- Gabe Evans R-CO
- Mike Haridopolos R-FL
- Bryan Steil R-WI
- W. Steube R-FL
- Aaron Bean R-FL
- Robert Bresnahan R-PA
- J. Hill R-AR
- Brian Jack R-GA
- Mike Kelly R-PA
- Brad Knott R-NC
- Rich McCormick R-GA
- Mark Amodei R-NV
- Erin Houchin R-IN
- Andrew Ogles R-TN
- Michael Rulli R-OH
- Lloyd Smucker R-PA
- Randy Weber R-TX
- Katherine Cammack R-FL
- Mike Flood R-NE
- Robert Latta R-OH
- Troy Balderson R-OH
- Pat Harrigan R-NC
- Mike Carey R-OH
- Julie Fedorchak R-ND
- Diana Harshbarger R-TN
- David Rouzer R-NC
- Jefferson Shreve R-IN
- Russell Fry R-SC
- Michael Baumgartner R-WA
- Craig Goldman R-TX
- Kevin Hern R-OK
- Zachary (Zach) Nunn R-IA
- David Kustoff R-TN
- Scott Fitzgerald R-WI
- Ashley Hinson R-IA
- Michelle Fischbach R-MN
- Cliff Bentz R-OR
- Juan Ciscomani R-AZ
- Mike Kennedy R-UT
- Max Miller R-OH
- Earl Carter R-GA
- Vince Fong R-CA
- Bill Huizenga R-MI
- John McGuire R-VA
- Adrian Smith R-NE
- Scott Peters D-CA
- Brendan Boyle D-PA
- Jared Moskowitz D-FL
Who scored on this bill
- 1Gregory Murphy SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reached a cosponsor milestone4 events+18
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History
- Introduced in the House by Gregory Murphy.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.