Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3; 117th Congress)

117th CONGRESS 1st Session

To establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the Medicare program from excessive price increases, and establish an out-of-pocket maximum for Medicare part D enrollees, and for other purposes.

Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Neal, and Mr. Scott of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Reform, and Veterans' Affairs, 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

To establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the Medicare program from excessive price increases, and establish an out-of-pocket maximum for Medicare part D enrollees, and for other purposes.


 * Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 * (a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act”.


 * (b) Table Of Contents.—The table of contents is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
 * TITLE I − LOWERING PRICES THROUGH FAIR DRUG PRICE NEGOTIATION
 * TITLE II − PRESCRIPTION DRUG INFLATION REBATES
 * TITLE III − PART D IMPROVEMENTS AND MAXIMUM OUT-OF-POCKET CAP FOR MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES
 * TITLE IV − DRUG PRICE TRANSPARENCY
 * TITLE V − NIH, FDA, AND OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC FUNDING
 * Subtitle A — Biomedical Innovation Expansion
 * Subtitle B — Investing In Safety And Innovation
 * Subtitle C — Overdose Epidemic Response