Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2007

To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide coverage for individuals participating in approved cancer clinical trials.

6/12/2007--Introduced.
Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from:
(1) denying an eligible participant or beneficiary participation in clinical trials related to the treatment of cancer that are federally funded or conducted under an investigational new drug application reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA);
(2) denying (or limiting or imposing additional conditions on) the coverage of routine patient costs for items and services furnished in connection with such participation; or
(3) discriminating against an individual on the basis of such participation. Includes as routine patient costs all items and services provided in the clinical trial that are otherwise generally available to a qualified individual, with certain exceptions. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the impact on group health plans and health insurance issuers of requiring them to cover routine patient care costs for individuals with serious and life threatening diseases other than cancer.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Deborah Pryce [R, OH-15]
• and 38 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Jason Altmire [D, PA-4]
  • Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D, WI-2]
  • Rep. Frederick Boucher [D, VA-9]
  • Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
  • Rep. Barton Gordon [D, TN-6]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Brian Higgins [D, NY-27]
  • Rep. Baron Hill [D, IN-9]
  • Rep. David Hobson [R, OH-7]
  • Rep. Darlene Hooley [D, OR-5]
  • Rep. Steve Israel [D, NY-2]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. Peter King [R, NY-3]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. Nita Lowey [D, NY-18]
  • Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D, NY-14]
  • Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
  • Rep. Sue Myrick [R, NC-9]
  • Rep. Edward Pastor [D, AZ-4]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Charles Pickering [R, MS-3]
  • Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]
  • Rep. David Price [D, NC-4]
  • Rep. Nick Rahall [D, WV-3]
  • Rep. Charles Rangel [D, NY-15]
  • Rep. Ralph Regula [R, OH-16]
  • Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Jean Schmidt [R, OH-2]
  • Rep. Louise Slaughter [D, NY-28]
  • Rep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]
  • Rep. Frank Wolf [R, VA-10]
  • Rep. David Wu [D, OR-1]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 5 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2676

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 12, 2007

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• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jun 18, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Jun 12, 2007.

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• Health policy
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• Cancer
• Civil rights
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• Clinical trials
• Collective bargaining
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Cost accounting
• Discrimination in insurance
• Discrimination in medical care
• Employee health benefits
• Finance
• Health insurance
• Labor
• Labor contracts
• Medical care
• Medical economics
• Medical fees
• Medical research
• Medicine
• Patients' rights
• Peer review organizations (Medicine)
• Pharmaceutical research
• Science policy
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