[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5829 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5829

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2018

  Mr. Mullin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 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.

    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 ``VA Opioid Prescribing Rates 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 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.
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