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S. 954IntroducedHEALTH

Affordable Insulin Now Act of 2023

Health care costs and insurance · Prescription drugs
Sponsor
Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
D · GA
Key facts
Introduced: Mar 23, 2023
Chamber: Senate
Cosponsors: 11
Congress: 118th
Latest action · Nov 30, 2023
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-511.

Summary

Affordable Insulin Now Act of 2023

This bill limits cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and establishes a program to provide insulin to individuals without insurance.

Specifically, the bill caps cost-sharing under private health insurance for a month's supply of selected insulin products at $35 or 25% of a plan's negotiated price (after any price concessions), whichever is less, beginning in 2024.

Further, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must enter into agreements with pharmacies or health care providers to provide insulin to individuals without insurance. HHS must pay such pharmacies or providers an amount equal to the difference between the out-of-pocket cost to the individual for a 30-day supply of such insulin products and $35.

Summary by Congressional Research Service.

Timeline

  1. Nov 30, 2023
    Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-511.
  2. Mar 23, 2023
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  3. Mar 23, 2023
    Introduced in Senate

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