Title: SAVE Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Seniors Accessing Vouchers Equally Act or the SAVE Act
This bill exempts the use of certain cost-sharing coupons by pharmacies or drug manufacturers under the Medicare prescription drug benefit from specified criminal penalties relating to illegal remunerations, so long as there is no generic version of the drug to which the coupon applies.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6488 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6488

  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to exempt from certain 
   criminal penalties the offering and use of certain pharmaceutical 
    manufacturer copayment coupons to waive or reduce cost-sharing 
    otherwise applied under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2018

   Mr. Barton (for himself and Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to exempt from certain 
   criminal penalties the offering and use of certain pharmaceutical 
    manufacturer copayment coupons to waive or reduce cost-sharing 
    otherwise applied under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seniors Accessing Vouchers Equally 
Act'' or the ``SAVE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTING FROM CERTAIN CRIMINAL PENALTIES THE OFFERING AND USE 
              OF CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER COUPONS TO WAIVE 
              OR REDUCE COST-SHARING OTHERWISE APPLIED UNDER THE 
              MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT.

    (a) In General.--Section 1128B(b)(3)(G) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b)(3)(G)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the waiver or reduction by pharmacies'' 
        and inserting ``(i) the waiver or reduction by pharmacies'';
            (2) by inserting ``and'' after ``that section);''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(ii) with respect to a covered part D drug of a 
                manufacturer, the waiver or reduction (not otherwise 
                described in clause (i)) by pharmacies (including 
                pharmacies of the Indian Health Service, Indian tribes, 
                tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations) 
                or the manufacturer of any cost-sharing imposed under 
                part D of title XVIII for such drug through the use of 
                a pharmaceutical manufacturer coupon, but only if there 
                is not a generic version of such drug;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to covered part D drugs dispensed on or after 
January 1, 2019.
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