VA Credentialing and Privileging Improvement Act

Bill: 113-hr-5342
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2014-07-31
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions

Health personnel

Licensing and registrations

Military medicine

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>VA Credentialing and Privileging Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), within 30 days after a military health care provider requests privileges to provide hospital care or medical services in a VA medical facility, to approve such provider's credentials and grant such privileges, unless the Secretary can show cause for denying such privileges.</p> <p>Defines &quot;military health care provider&quot; as a member of the Armed Forces who is: (1) a health care provider; (2) serving on active duty in, or in the process of being separated from, the Armed Forces; and (3) privileged to work in a military treatment facility.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5342 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 31, 2014 Mr. Heck of Nevada (for himself, Mr. Cole , Mr. Brooks of Alabama , Mr. Amodei , Mr. Ribble , Mr. King of New York , and Mr. Tipton ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expeditiously grant privileges to members of the Armed Forces who are health care providers to provide hospital care and medical services in medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the VA Credentialing and Privileging Improvement Act . 2. Approval of credentials of military physicians for purposes of granting privileges to Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities (a) Approval of credentials Not later than 30 days after a request is made by a military health care provider described in subsection (b) for privileges to provide hospital care or medical services in a medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall approve the credentials of the provider and grant such privileges, unless the Secretary can show cause for denying such privileges. (b) Military health care provider A military health care provider described in this subsection is a member of the Armed Forces who— (1) is a health care provider; (2) is serving on active duty in, or in the process of being separated from, the Armed Forces; and (3) is privileged to work in a military treatment facility.