Bill | Summary | Details | Where is bill? |
S455 | Prohibits specialty tiers (i.e. Prohibits insurance companies from establishing categories or tiers of drugs that would cost cosumers more.) | Click HERE | Reported out favorably by Health Care Finance Committee. Now in Committee on Senate Ethics and Rules. |
H3960 | Establishes a Hemophilia Advisory Committee | Click HERE | Committee on Bills in Third Reading |
H2383 | Provides consumers with access to cost saving prescription discount programs (i.e. pharmaceutical coupons) | Click HERE | Bill did not pass, but language from bill is included in FY13 state budget. |
S1107 | Provides consumers with access to cost saving prescription discount programs (i.e. pharmaceutical coupons) | Click HERE | Bill did not pass, but language from bill is included in FY13 state budget. |
Legislative Details:
Hemophilia Advisory Committee Bill H1526- (now H3960) - In January 2012, lead sponsor Representative Jeffrey Sanchez filed a revised version of the Hemophilia Advisory Committee bill, HB1526. Rep. Sanchez is the chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health. Passage of the bill would authorize the creation and maintenance of the Hemophilia Advisory Committee. The Committee would, among other things:
- Advise both the Commissioner of Public Health and the Commissioner of Insurance on a broad array of issues, including access to care, insurance coverage, standards of treatment, public education, and other matters that affect the interests of the MA bleeding and clotting disorders communities; and
- Support the Commonwealth in addressing the needs of a large number of people of all ages affected by bleeding and clotting disorders in Massachusetts.
Bill H3960, which would establish a Hemophilia Advisory Committee, was reported out favorably by the Committee on Public Health and Health Care Financing and is currently sitting in the Committee on Bills in Third Reading. Contact your Representative today and urge him/her to askthe Speaker of the House to bring H3960 to the floor for a vote ASAP.
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