Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018 became law 210 days after introduction, with cosponsors split almost evenly between the parties
IntroducedMar 14, 2018
Reported—
Passed one chamberSep 4, 2018
Passed bothSep 25, 2018
LawOct 10, 2018
What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 63 words.
Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018
(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits a prescription drug plan under Medicare or Medicare Advantage from restricting a pharmacy from informing an enrollee of any difference between the price, copayment, or coinsurance of a drug under the plan and a lower price of the drug without health-insurance coverage. (Such restrictions are commonly referred to as gag clauses.)
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 5 of 182 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 5, from enrolled bill to public law · 410 words
- Subjects
- Health care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessInsurance industry and regulationMedicarePrescription drugs
- Latest action
- Oct 10, 2018: Became Public Law No: 115-262.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 4
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 4 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 115th H.R. 6144 Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018 D · Introduced
Related, per CRS or House · 3
- 115th H.R. 6733 Know the Cost Act of 2018 R · Reported
- 115th S. 2554 Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act R · Law
- 115th S.Con.Res. 49 A concurrent resolution providing for a correction in the enrollment of S. 2553. D · Passed both
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]