Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2020

United States116th CongressHR-6179House of Representatives
Latest legislative activity: Mar 10, 2020

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Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2020

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a demonstration project to evaluate the benefits of providing additional payments to providers of biosimilars under Medicare. Specifically, under the demonstration project, participating providers receive an additional payment based on the difference between the costs to the provider of furnishing the biosimilar and the cost if the provider had furnished the underlying reference biological product instead.

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S-4134: Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. 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.

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