[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2819 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2819

   To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report on opioid 
 prescribing rates of physicians of the Veterans Health Administration 
 and to conduct pain management training for those physicians with the 
                  highest rates of opioid prescribing.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2018

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report on opioid 
 prescribing rates of physicians of the Veterans Health Administration 
 and to conduct pain management training for those physicians with the 
                  highest rates of opioid prescribing.

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

SECTION 1. 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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