Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015

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45 cosponsors · 19 D, 26 R

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What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Feb 27, 2015

Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create certain additional groups of covered OPD services that classify separately, from those that do not utilize such a drug, procedures that utilize a drug (other than contrast agents, diagnostic radiopharmaceutical, or anesthesia drugs) that both has a cost above the drug packaging threshold and functions as a supply when used in a diagnostic test or procedure.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Ensuring Equal Access to Treatments Act of 2015

Latest action (Mar 27, 2015): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Feb 27, 2015

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.