legislation: 96-hr-8025

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96-hr-8025 96 hr 8025 A bill to limit medicare and medicaid payments for certain drugs. Health 1980-08-26 1980-08-26 Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. House Rep. Eckhardt, Bob [D-TX-8] TX D E000035 1 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prohibit Medicare and Medicaid payments for any new drug or drug similar to a new drug: (1) which has been provisionally approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (2) which may be dispensed only upon prescription; (3) for which the Secretary has issued a notice of a hearing on a proposed order to withdraw approval of such drug because the drug is not effective for all the uses prescribed in its labeling; and (4) for which the Secretary has found no compelling medical need. Continues such prohibition until the Secretary withdraws such proposed order. 2024-02-07T16:32:33Z  

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