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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2256 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs to submit an annual report on the Veterans Health Administration and the furnishing of hospital care, medical services, and nursing 

home care by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 12, 2015 

Mr. BENISHEK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report 

on the Veterans Health Administration and the furnishing of hospital care, medical services, and nursing 

home care by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited a the ‘‘Veterans Information 

5 Modernization Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON VETERANS HEALTH ADMINIS2 TRATION AND FURNISHING OF HOSPITAL 

3 CARE, MEDICAL SERVICES, AND NURSING 

4 HOME CARE. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 73 of 

6 title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

7 end the following new section: 

8 ‘‘§ 7330B. Annual report on Veterans Health Adminis9 tration and furnishing of hospital care, 

10 medical services, and nursing home care 

11 ‘‘(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than March 1 

12 of each year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees 

13 on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Rep14 resentatives a report on the furnishing of hospital care, 

15 medical services, and nursing home care under the laws 

16 administered by the Secretary and on the administration 

17 of the provision of such care and services by the Veterans 

18 Health Administration during the calendar year preceding 

19 the calendar year during which the report is submitted. 

20 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—Each report required 

21 by subsection (a) shall include each of the following for 

22 the year covered by the report: 

23 ‘‘(1) An evaluation of the effectiveness of the 

24 Veterans Health Administration program in increas25 ing the access of veterans eligible for hospital care, 


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1 medical services, and nursing home care furnished 

2 by the Secretary to such care. 

3 ‘‘(2) An evaluation of the effectiveness of the 

4 Veterans Health Administration in improving the 

5 quality of health care provided to such veterans, 

6 without increasing the costs incurred by the Govern7 ment or such veterans, which includes the relevant 

8 information for each medical center and Veterans 

9 Integrated Service Network of the Department set 

10 forth separately. 

11 ‘‘(3) An assessment of— 

12 ‘‘(A) the workload of physicians and other 

13 employees of the Veterans Health Administra14 tion; 

15 ‘‘(B) patient demographics and utilization 

16 rates; 

17 ‘‘(C) physician compensation; 

18 ‘‘(D) the productivity of physicians and 

19 other employees of the Veterans Health Admin20 istration; 

21 ‘‘(E) the percentage of hospital care, med22 ical services, and nursing home care provided to 

23 such veterans in Department facilities and in 

24 non-Department facilities and any changes in 


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1 such percentages compared to the year pre2 ceding the year covered by the report; and 

3 ‘‘(F) pharmaceutical prices. 

4 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘hos5 pital care’, ‘medical services’, ‘nursing home care’, and 

6 ‘non-Department facilities’ have the meanings given such 

7 terms in section 1701 of this title.’’. 

8 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

9 at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 

10 after the item relating to section 7330A the following new 

11 item: 

‘‘7330B. Annual report on Veterans Health Administration and furnishing of 

hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care.’’. 

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