HB6956: Opioid Settlement Accountability Act
- 1Introduced (current step)
- 2Passed One Chamber
- 3Passed Both Chambers
- 4Became Law
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Summary
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from treating any Medicaid-related funds recovered from one or more pharmaceutical companies or drug distributors with respect to opioid litigation as an overpayment under such title, and for other purposes.
Plain-language summary
This bill would change how the federal government treats money that states recover from pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors in opioid-related lawsuits. Currently, the federal government can claim that recovered settlement money counts as an overpayment states owe back to Medicaid (the government health program for low-income people). This bill would prevent that, allowing states to keep the full settlement money without the federal government taking a share. The bill was recently introduced in Congress and is under consideration.
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HB6956: Opioid Settlement Accountability Act