S.425: Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

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Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act This bill imposes a one cent per milligram fee on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The fee excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients...

(Source: Library of Congress)

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Feb. 7, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb. 7, 2019

Introduced in the Senate by Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)

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