A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report on opioid prescribing rates of physicians of the Veterans Health Administration and to conduct pain management training for those physicians with the highest rates of opioid prescribing.

Bill: 115-s-2819
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2018-05-10
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

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Government information and archives

Health information and medical records

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Prescription drugs

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to: (1) report at least annually to each Veterans Health Administration physician on his or her opioid prescribing rates, and (2) provide physicians who were among the highest opioid prescribers each fiscal year with pain management training. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2819 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 10, 2018 Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report on opioid prescribing rates of physicians of the Veterans Health Administration and to conduct pain management training for those physicians with the highest rates of opioid prescribing.

1. Annual reports on Veterans Health Administration physician opioid prescribing rates and mandatory pain management training for highest prescribers (a) Annual reports Not less frequently than once each year, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall transmit to each individual employed by the Veterans Health Administration as a physician a report on the opioid prescribing rates of the individual. (b) Pain management training Each fiscal year, the Secretary shall ensure that each of the individuals employed by the Veterans Health Administration as physicians who were among the 10 percent of individuals employed by the Administration as physicians who had the highest opioid prescribing rates in the most recently completed fiscal year receive pain management training.