2018-06-08 Introduced in House This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to:

• track VA provider workloads considering the time, mental effort and judgment, technical skill, physical effort, and stress involved in delivering a procedure;
• require VA providers to attend training on clinical procedure coding; and
• establish standardized performance standards for each VA facility in order to evaluate clinical productivity at the provider and facility levels.

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