Title: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Sunshine Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Sunshine Act of 2018
This bill expands Medicaid and Medicare reporting requirements related to the transparency of physician ownership or investment interests.
Under current law, a manufacturer of drugs, devices, or medical supplies that are covered under Medicaid or Medicare must regularly report on any payment or transfer of value by the manufacturer to a “covered recipient,” defined as either a physician who is not an employee of the manufacturer or a teaching hospital. The bill expands the definition of “covered recipient” to also include any of the following practitioners who is not an employee of the manufacturer: (1) a physician assistant, (2) a nurse practitioner, (3) a clinical nurse specialist, (4) a certified registered nurse anesthetist, or (5) a certified nurse-midwife.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2891 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2891

  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require applicable 
    manufacturers to include information regarding payments made to 
 physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other advance practice 
 nurses in transparency reports submitted under section 1128G of such 
                                  Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2018

 Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                               on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require applicable 
    manufacturers to include information regarding payments made to 
 physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other advance practice 
 nurses in transparency reports submitted under section 1128G of such 
                                  Act.

    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 ``Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with 
Sunshine Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSPARENCY REPORTS.

    (a) Inclusion of Information Regarding Payments to Advance Practice 
Nurses.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1128G(e)(6) of the Social Security 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7h(e)(6)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end the 
                following new clauses:
                            ``(iii) A physician assistant, nurse 
                        practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist (as 
                        such terms are defined in section 1861(aa)(5)).
                            ``(iv) A certified registered nurse 
                        anesthetist (as defined in section 
                        1861(bb)(2)).
                            ``(v) A certified nurse-midwife (as defined 
                        in section 1861(gg)(2)).''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, physician 
                assistant, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse 
                specialist, certified nurse anesthetist, or certified 
                nurse-midwife'' after ``physician''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
        shall apply with respect to information required to be 
        submitted under section 1128G of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 1320a-7h) on or after January 1, 2020.
    (b) Sunset of Exclusion of National Provider Identifier of Covered 
Recipient in Information Made Publicly Available.--Section 
1128G(c)(1)(C)(viii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-
7h(c)(1)(C)(viii)) is amended by striking ``does not contain'' and 
inserting ``in the case of information made available under this 
subparagraph prior to January 1, 2020, does not contain''.
    (c) Administration.--Chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, 
shall not apply to this section or the amendments made by this section.
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