119th Congress Health
H.R. 946: ORPHAN Cures Act
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Summary
This bill modifies certain provisions under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program with respect to orphan drugs.
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 program does not apply to orphan drugs that are approved to treat only one rare disease or condition.
The bill modifies these provisions so as to exclude any period in which a drug was an orphan drug from market approval calculations. It also excludes orphan drugs that are approved to treat more than one rare disease or condition from the program.
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
- Gus Bilirakis R-FLOriginal
- Donald Davis D-NCOriginal
- Josh Gottheimer D-NJOriginal
- Richard Hudson R-NCOriginal
- Kevin Hern R-OKOriginal
- William Keating D-MAOriginal
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks R-IAOriginal
- Scott Peters D-CAOriginal
- Shri Thanedar D-MIOriginal
- Janelle Bynum D-OR
- Thomas Kean R-NJ
- Lloyd Smucker R-PA
- Dina Titus D-NV
- Neal Dunn R-FL
- Andrea Salinas D-OR
- Dan Crenshaw R-TX
- Adam Gray D-CA
- Robert Bresnahan R-PA
Who scored on this bill
- 1John Joyce SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the House by John Joyce.
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- Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H535-536)
- 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.