Lower Drug Costs for Families Act
This bill amends Medicare's prescription drug rebate calculations for Part B and Part D drugs. It changes the base year for calculating rebates from 2021 to 2016 and adjusts how "commercial market" drug units are counted to exclude units paid for under state Medicaid programs. These changes affect drug manufacturers who pay rebates to Medicare, as they alter the formula used to determine rebate amounts. The bill does not create new cost-saving measures but modifies existing calculation methods for Medicare's drug rebate program.
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Introduction
Mar 2023
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Introduced Mar 30, 2023
Last action Mar 30, 2023
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Mar 30, 2023
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Mar 30, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 9 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Catherine Cortez Masto
DDemocratic
Co
Amy Klobuchar
DDemocratic
Co
Debbie Stabenow
DDemocratic
Co
Jack Reed
DDemocratic
Co
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
DDemocratic
Co
Peter Welch
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Blumenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Sherrod Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Tammy Baldwin
DDemocratic
Co
Tina Smith
DDemocratic
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