340B ACCESS Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5256 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5256 To amend the Public Health Service Act to reform the 340B drug pricing program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 10, 2025 Mr. Carter of Georgia (for himself and Mrs. Harshbarger) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to reform the 340B drug pricing program, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``340B Affording Care for Communities and Ensuring a Strong Safety-net Act'' or the ``340B ACCESS Act''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Prevention of Medicaid duplicate discounts; oversight of covered entities. Sec. 4. Hospital child site requirements. Sec. 5. Contract pharmacies. Sec. 6. Ensuring patient affordability of drugs purchased under section 340B. Sec. 7. Requirements for nonhospital covered entities and subgrantees. Sec. 8. Claims modifiers; covered entity data submission. Sec. 9. Covered entity reporting on scope of grant, contract, and project. Sec. 10. Ensuring covered entity transparency. Sec. 11. Revisions to existing 340B hospital eligibility requirements. Sec. 12. Additional requirements for 340B hospitals. Sec. 13. 3