Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5278
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Antitrust law
Business records
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drug utilization
Drugs
Employee health benefits
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance companies
Medical statistics
Medicare
Patients' rights
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Restrictive trade practices
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 2004 - Provides that antitrust laws shall apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act.
 
 Prohibits any pharmaceutical drug manufacturer from having a controlling interest in an entity that is a pharmacy benefit manager. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose all compensation from drug manufacturers. Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from making certain drug interchanges: (1) to a drug with a greater cost; (2) without disclosure to the individual; or (3) from a drug with generic equivalents to a drug without generic equivalents, unless the latter is lower in cost than each of the generic equivalents of the drug from which the prescription would be changed. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to apply specified standards for community pharmacy access under the Medicare outpatient prescription drug program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House