Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2021

United States117th CongressS-1427Senate
Updated: Apr 28, 2021

Summary

Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2021 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

Latest companion bill action

HR-2869: Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

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