Seniors’ Access to Critical Medications Act of 2025
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 27
- Latest action
- Apr 29, 2025
What it does
Seniors’ Access to Critical Medications Act of 2025 This bill temporarily expands flexibilities under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) for certain physicians who dispense covered outpatient drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit at the physician's office location (e.g., through an integrated pharmacy). The Stark law generally prohibits physicians from referring patients to receive services that are payable under Medicare or Medicaid from entities in which the physician or an immediate family member has a financial relationship. Specifically, the bill allows, from 2026-2030, physicians to dispense such drugs from the physician's office, including through…
Official summary · Introduced in House · Mar 31, 2025
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Diana Harshbarger
- Aaron Bean
- Carol Miller
- Chellie Pingree
- Dan Crenshaw
- Darren Soto
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Donald Davis
- Gus Bilirakis
- Jared Golden
- Jennifer Kiggans
- Joe Wilson
- Josh Gottheimer
- Josh Riley
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks
- Michael Rulli
- Mike Kelly
- Nathaniel Moran
- Nicole Malliotakis
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
- Richard Hudson
- Ron Estes
- Sarah Elfreth
- Terri Sewell
- Tim Burchett
- Troy Balderson
- W. Steube
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.