[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2758 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2758

To 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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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 7, 2016

     Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. 
  Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

SEC. 2. 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.''.
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