VA Opioid Prescribing Rates Accountability Act

Bill: 115-hr-5829
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2018-05-15
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Employee performance

Government information and archives

Health information and medical records

Health personnel

Medical education

Prescription drugs

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>VA Opioid Prescribing Rates Accountability Act</b></p> <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: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5829 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 15, 2018 Mr. Mullin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to inform each physician of the Veterans Health Administration of the opioid prescribing rate of the physician and to require pain management training for the physicians with the highest opioid prescribing rates.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the VA Opioid Prescribing Rates Accountability Act . 2. 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.