Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2020
United States116th CongressS-4134Senate
Updated: Jul 1, 2020
Summary
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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Timeline
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HR-6179: Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2020Introduced in House
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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