United States · Bill · S
S. 2129 (118th)
Ensuring Access to Lower-Cost Medicines for Seniors Act
Introduced
22 June 2023
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
2 August 2024
Summary
Ensuring Access to Lower-Cost Medicines for Seniors Act This bill requires prescription drug plans under the Medicare prescription drug benefit to include generic drugs and biosimilars on their formularies. Specifically, the bill requires plans that use formularies to include generic drugs and biosimilars on the formularies and without any requirements (e.g., prior authorization requirements) that are more restrictive as compared to those for brand-name drugs and biologics. Plans that use cost-sharing tiers must also have specific tiers for generic drugs and biosimilars, in accordance with certain limitations.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 June 2023
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 June 2023
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 22 June 2023
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2129
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/2129