HR 2484 · in committee · significant
Seniors’ Access to Critical Medications Act of 2025
- healthcare
What this bill does
- Bill temporarily allows doctors to dispense Medicare prescription drugs from their offices between 2026 and 2030.
- Affects seniors on Medicare who receive prescriptions from their doctors, and physicians who want to dispense drugs.
- Requires GAO to study physician-owned pharmacies and their role in drug dispensing under Medicare.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How might allowing doctors to dispense medications directly from their offices affect medication costs and convenience for seniors on Medicare?
- 02
What potential conflicts of interest could arise when physicians both prescribe and dispense drugs, and how does this pilot program address them?
- 03
What specific data should the GAO study to determine whether this five-year pilot should become permanent policy?
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Sponsor · R-TN-1
Diana Harshbarger
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
24/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-04-29
Joining the bill
Carol D. Miller
R-WV-1 · original
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-FL-25 · original
Dan Crenshaw
R-TX-2 · original
Donald G. Davis
D-NC-1 · original
Darren Soto
D-FL-9 · original
Josh Gottheimer
D-NJ-5
Raja Krishnamoorthi
D-IL-8
Joe Wilson
R-SC-2
W. Gregory Steube
R-FL-17
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
R-IA-1
Nicole Malliotakis
R-NY-11
Nathaniel Moran
R-TX-1
+ 12 more
Legislative timeline
2025-04-29 · house · Committee
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 38 - 7.
2025-04-29 · house · Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2025-03-31 · house · IntroReferral
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.
2025-03-31 · house · IntroReferral
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.
2025-03-31 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-03-31 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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