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Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act

S. 2948 · 113th Congress · Nov 20, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To extend the requirement that drug manufacturers that increase prices faster than inflation pay an additional rebate to State Medicaid programs to include manufacturers of generic drugs.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act”.

Sec. 2 Applying the Medicaid additional rebate requirement to manufacturers of generic drugs

(a)
In general— Section 1927(c)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r–8(c)(3)(A)) is amended—
(1)
in clause (ii), by striking the period and inserting “,”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following flush text:
(b)
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall apply to rebate periods beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act.