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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mrs. LURIA:H.R. 7275.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clauses 12 and 13, which grantCongress the power to establish a military. and Clause 18,which grants Congress the necessary and proper powers tocarry out its other enumerated powers.[Page H3971]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>VA Preventing Duplicate Payments Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish policies and procedures for the detection and prevention of duplicate billings and payments of non-VA health care providers under the Veterans Community Care Program </p> <p>Such policies and procedures should compare billings or payments made by the VA for a medical service to a billing or payment made for the same service by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Medicare program or the Department of Defense (DOD) under the TRICARE program.</p> <p>The VA, the CMS, and DOD must (1) enter into data-matching agreements to share and match relevant data in the systems of records for the purposes of this bill, and (2) establish and implement policies that clarify which department or agency is financially responsible for payment or reimbursement for a medical service. The established policies must also provide for the recoupment of payments if duplicate payments are made for the same medical service.</p>]]></text>
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