Providing Realistic Opportunity To Equal and Comparable Treatment for Rare Act
- Last Action
- 12/17/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-11-03Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-10-26Referred 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.
- 2023-10-26Referred 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.
- 2023-10-26Introduced in House
- 2023-10-26Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-10-26 (00)
Providing Realistic Opportunity To Equal and Comparable Treatment for Rare Act or the PROTECT Rare Act
This bill provides for coverage under the Medicare prescription drug benefit, Medicaid, and private health insurance of certain drugs that are used to treat rare diseases or conditions (i.e., diseases or conditions that affect 200,000 or fewer individuals). Such drugs must be supported by peer-reviewed research or medical experts and must not have been reviewed unfavorably in specified compendia or used in a way that conflicts with approved labels.
Cosponsors (20)
- Neal Dunn (R-FL)
- MIKE THOMPSON (D-CA)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- Dean Phillips (D-MN)
- Melanie Stansbury (D-NM)
- Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
- Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX)
- Donald Davis (D-NC)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
- Shri Thanedar (D-MI)
- Lori Trahan (D-MA)
- Mike Quigley (D-IL)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)
- August Pfluger (R-TX)
- Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
Subjects
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Prescription drugs
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