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H.R. 5133

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Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Promoting Competition Act of 2019
About This Bill
Introduced
Latest Action · December 24, 2020
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 578.
Congress
116th (2019–2021)
Introduced
November 18, 2019
Cosponsors (5)
2D 3R
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Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Promoting Competition Act of 2019 This bill prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, the practice of product hopping, which is presumed when a drug manufacturer obtains removal of a drug from the Food and Drug Administration's approved drug list, discontinues a drug, or markets a reformulation of an already approved drug during a certain period after which the manufacturer has been notified that a competing drug manufacturer has applied for generic drug approval.

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