Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Health Care Financing

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Start Time:

11:00 AM

Location:

Virtual Hearing

Event Description

Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency

Please be advised that the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing shall hold a virtual public hearing on Tuesday, JULY 13, 2021 at 11:00 A.M. during which the committee shall entertain public comment on the legislation listed on the docket below.

To Stream Live: MALegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Joint

PRE-REGISTRAION TO TESTIFY IS REQUIRED: Persons seeking to provide testimony must pre-register via this Google form: https://forms.gle/4biLyyPrchrWsboPA

DEADLINE TO PRE-REGISTER: The deadline to pre-register to testify is 4:00 P.M. Thursday, July 8. Once registered, a representative of the Legislative Information Services will e-mail each individual signed-up to appear a link to join the hearing on Microsoft Teams. Additional instructions on how to participate will be provided prior to the start of the hearing. Note: If a person is filling out the pre-registration form on behalf of another person, only the e-mail and contact information of the persons seeking to testify should be listed on the form.

ORAL TESTIMONY – INDVIDUAL TIME LIMIT: Individuals who register to testify at the hearing will be afforded 3 minutes to speak.

ORAL TESTIMONY – PARTICIPATING AS A PANEL: At the discretion of the Chairs, individuals may be called to offer testimony as part of a panel. Individuals participating as part of a panel must fill-out the appropriate section of the pre-registration form. Note: Each member of a panel is still required to fill out an individual pre-registration form.

ORAL TESTIMONY – PANEL TIME LIMIT: Persons who note in their pre-registration form that they wish to testify as part of a panel will be afforded 3 minutes per person up to a maximum of 9 minutes for the panels of 3 or more persons. The Chairs, at their discretion, may further limit the time for testimony.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: Written testimony may also be submitted to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing via E-mail to the House and Senate Chairs at John.Lawn@mahouse.gov and Cindy.Friedman@masenate.gov as well as the Committee Director Committee Director at timothy.oneill@mahouse.gov.

LEGISLATOR AND PUBLIC OFFICIAL TESTIMONY: Due to the technical requirements of the Microsoft Teams meeting platform, legislators and public officials are also required to pre-register to testify before the committee. The Chairs, at their discretion, may take legislators and public officials out of turn. The committee will extend this courtesy to legislators and public officials only and may not be expanded to include other individuals or panels.

ORDER OF TESTIMONY: The Chairs, at their discretion, will determine the order of testimony during the course of the hearing. It is the responsibility of the individuals seeking to testify to be prepared to speak when called upon by the Chairs. In the event that an individual is called by the Chairs and that person is not logged into the Teams platform, the Chairs will move on and call the next individual or panel

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Hearing	7/13/2021 11:00 AM	02:43:05

Agenda

Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency 11:00am - 4:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.729	An Act to ensure prescription drug cost transparency and affordability	Christine P. Barber
H.743	An Act establishing a commission to study a state-wide drug repository program	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1248	An Act relative to provide immediate relief to businesses on health care costs	F. Jay Barrows
H.1254	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Edward F. Coppinger
H.1257	An Act relative to the treatment of epilepsy and seizure disorders	Michael S. Day
H.1272	An Act to promote transparency in prescription drug prices	Kate Hogan
H.1278	An Act relative to prescription drug price transparency	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1279	An Act establishing a commission to review contracts between pharmaceutical benefit managers and MassHealth	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1303	An Act relative to compensation for victims of opioids	James J. O'Day
H.1307	An Act establishing a study to examine the feasibility of state manufactured generic prescription drugs	Smitty Pignatelli
H.1311	An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Jeffrey N. Roy
H.3787	An Act relative to pharmacy benefit managers reimbursements to pharmacies in the Commonwealth	Alyson M. Sullivan
S.736	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Joseph A. Boncore
S.756	An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Julian Cyr
S.771	An Act relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency	Cindy F. Friedman
S.785	An Act to improve the accessibility and affordability of pharmaceutical drugs of public health concern	Eric P. Lesser
S.786	An Act to bring down the cost of prescription drugs	Eric P. Lesser
S.790	An Act to define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings	Jason M. Lewis
S.803	An Act relative to coverage for chronic illness	Mark C. Montigny
S.804	An Act to promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices	Mark C. Montigny
S.808	An Act relative to cancer patient access to biomarker testing to provide appropriate therapy	Susan L. Moran

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Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Health Care Financing

Pharmaceutical Access, Cost & Transparency 11:00am - 4:00pm

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Health Care Financing

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