Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Insulin Affordability Data Collection Act”.
Insulin Affordability Data Collection Act
A BILL
To require the Secretary to conduct a study and issue a report on the affordability of insulin.
Sec. 2 Study and report on the affordability of insulin
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”), acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, shall—
conduct a study that examines—
for each type or classification of diabetes (including type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and other conditions causing reliance on insulin), the effect of the affordability of insulin on—
adherence to insulin prescriptions;
rates of diabetic ketoacidosis;
downstream impacts of insulin adherence, including rates of dialysis treatment and end-stage renal disease;
spending by Federal health programs on acute episodes that could have been averted by adhering to an insulin prescription; and
other factors, as appropriate, to understand the impacts of insulin affordability on health outcomes, Federal Government spending (including under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) and the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.)), and insured and uninsured individuals with diabetes; and
among individuals who are unable to afford insulin, the numbers of such individuals—
who are uninsured;
who are covered under private health insurance; and
who are covered under public health insurance programs; and
not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under paragraph (1).