114 S2758 IS: Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing Act of 2016 U.S. Senate 2016-04-07 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

II114th CONGRESS2d SessionS. 2758IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESApril 7, 2016Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on FinanceA BILLTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove consideration of certain pain-related issues from calculations under the Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing Act of 2016 and as the PROP Act of 2016.

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Removing consideration of certain pain-related issues from calculations under the Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program

Section 1886(o)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(o)(2)(B)) is amended— (1)in clause (i)(II), by inserting , subject to clause (iii), after shall; and (2)by adding at the end the following new clause: (iii)

Exclusion of certain pain-related measures

For value-based incentive payments made with respect to discharges occurring during fiscal year 2017 or a subsequent fiscal year, the Secretary shall ensure that measures selected under subparagraph (A) do not include measures based on any assessments by patients, with respect to hospital stays of such patients, of— (I)the need of such patients, during such stay, for medicine for pain; (II)how often, during such stay, the pain of such patients was well controlled; or (III)how often, during such stay, the staff of the hospital in which such stay occurred did everything they could to help the patient with the pain experienced by the patient..