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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3422 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3422

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to establish credentialing requirements for medical 
                                vendors.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2015

Mrs. Walorski (for herself and Mr. Walz) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to establish credentialing requirements for medical 
                                vendors.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``VA Vendor Verification Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CREDENTIALING REQUIREMENTS FOR 
              MEDICAL VENDORS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 8129. Credentialing requirements for medical vendors
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall establish uniform standards 
applicable to the credentialing of all medical vendors from which the 
Secretary procures goods or services. Such standards shall be based on 
the standards prescribed in the document entitled `Joint Recommendation 
for Healthcare Industry Representative (HCIR) Credentialing Best 
Practices' by the Coalition for Best Practices in HCIR Requirements. 
The Secretary shall update such standards to be consistant with any 
revision or update to the Joint Recommendation for Healthcare Industry 
Representative (HCIR) Credentialing Best Practices.
    ``(b) Medical Vendor Defined.--In this section, the term `medical 
vendor' means a health care industry representative, including a 
surgical implant vendor.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to 
subchapter II the following new item:

``8129. Credentialing requirements for medical vendors.''.
    (c) Applicability.--Section 8129 of title 38, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a), shall apply--
            (1) to any medical vendor (as such term is defined in 
        subsection (b) of such section) with whom the Secretary of 
        Veterans Affairs enters into a contract on or after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) to a medical vendor (as such term is defined in 
        subsection (b) of such section) with whom the Secretary has 
        entered into a contract before the date of the enactment of 
        this Act under which the medical vendor is obligated to provide 
        goods or services on or after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, on or after the date this is one year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act.
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