S. 832 · 119th Congress
EPIC Act of 2025
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Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025 or the EPIC Act of 2025
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 4, 2025
Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025 or the EPIC Act of 2025
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 beginning in 2028.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: EPIC Act of 2025
Also known as: Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025
Latest action (Mar 4, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 4, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.