Equalizing Transparency for Veterans Act
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Apr 16, 2015)
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.
What just happenedMay 1, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseApr 16, 2015
- May 1, 2015Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Apr 16, 2015IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Affairs Committee - Apr 16, 2015IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Apr 16, 2015IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House