S. 1493: Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act of 2013
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S. 1493: Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act of 2013
113th Congress · introduced 2013-09-10 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-09-10 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act of 2013
Plain summary
Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor to have in place a payment structure for covered part D drugs that encourages the use of dispensing techniques that foster efficiency and reduce wasteful dispensing of outpatient prescription drugs in long-term care facilities. Requires a PDP sponsor also to take into account, in establishing fees for dispensing covered Medicare part D drugs to enrollees in a long-term care facility, the utilization of such dispensing techniques to minimize the dispensing of unused drugs, the incremental costs associated with the type of dispensing methodology, and the requirements applicable to long-term care pharmacies.
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Official text
Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act of 2013
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s1493.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s1493 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113