Equalizing Transparency for Veterans Act
Latest action · Jun 27, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 17, 2014
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Equalizing Transparency for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to biennially publish information on the VA's provision of health care on a VA Internet database that is publicly available.
Includes among that information for each VA medical facility:
- quality measures regarding inpatient and outpatient care that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to make publicly available under the Medicare program;
- the average length of stay, opioid prescription rate, and suicide rate for patients discharged from the facility; and
- the average number of days a patient waited for an appointment or procedure at such facility.
Includes in such information for each VA nursing home any quality measures the Secretary of HHS makes publicly available regarding Medicare nursing homes.
Directs the Secretary to establish a process to validate the published information.
Requires the Secretary to annually submit a plan to Congress to improve each VA medical facility that ranks within the bottom quartile on each quality measure used by the Secretary to rank such facilities.
Directs the Secretary to establish a toll-free telephone number for individuals to use to notify the Secretary of low-quality care being provided at a VA medical facility.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 17, 2014.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Original | Jun 17, 2014 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 27, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 17, 2014Introduced in House
- Jun 17, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 17, 2014Introduced in House
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