Title: Better Transparency in Information for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2019
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Better Transparency in Information for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2019
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide individuals who are eligible for low-income subsidies under the Medicare prescription drug benefit with a comparison of premiums under certain benchmark (i.e., low-premium) plans.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4632 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4632

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate to part D subsidy 
   eligible individuals information comparing the premiums under LIS 
                 benchmark plans for such individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2019

   Mr. Kind (for himself, Ms. Davids of Kansas, and Mr. Butterfield) 
 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 XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate to part D subsidy 
   eligible individuals information comparing the premiums under LIS 
                 benchmark plans for such individuals.

    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 ``Better Transparency in Information 
for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. DISSEMINATION TO MEDICARE PART D SUBSIDY ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS 
              OF INFORMATION COMPARING PREMIUMS OF CERTAIN PRESCRIPTION 
              DRUG PLANS.

    Section 1860D-1(c)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
101(c)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Information on premiums for subsidy eligible 
                individuals.--
                            ``(i) In general.--For plan year 2022 and 
                        each subsequent plan year, the Secretary shall 
                        disseminate to each subsidy eligible individual 
                        (as defined in section 1860D-14(a)(3)) 
                        information under this paragraph comparing 
                        premiums that would apply to such individual 
                        for prescription drug coverage under LIS 
                        benchmark plans, including, in the case of an 
                        individual enrolled in a prescription drug plan 
                        under this part, information that compares the 
                        premium that would apply if such individual 
                        were to remain enrolled in such plan to 
                        premiums that would apply if the individual 
                        were to enroll in other LIS benchmark plans.
                            ``(ii) LIS benchmark plan.--For purposes of 
                        clause (i), the term `LIS benchmark plan' 
                        means, with respect to an individual, a 
                        prescription drug plan under this part that is 
                        offered in the region in which the individual 
                        resides and--
                                    ``(I) that provides for a premium 
                                that is not more than the low-income 
                                benchmark premium amount (as defined in 
                                section 1860D-14(b)(2)) for such 
                                region; or
                                    ``(II) with respect to which the 
                                premium would be waived as de minimis 
                                pursuant to section 1860D-14(a)(5) for 
                                such individual.''.
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