US Congress House Bill 3858 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 19-2)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Veteran-Centered Access to Coordinated Health Care Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide certain enrolled veterans with health services (authorized hospital care or medical, rehabilitative, or preventive health services) that are provided by a non-VA provider with whom the Secretary enters into a contract if the Secretary determines that VA facilities are incapable of furnishing such services because of: (1) geographical inaccessibility; or (2) a lack of required personnel or ability to provide timely and reasonable access. Specifies the order of priority of locations for such non-VA providers. Sets forth requirements concerning VA care coordination with such providers and provider performance metrics. Amends the Veterans' Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008 to reauthorize, for three years, a VA pilot program of contract care authority within each Veterans Integrated Service Network for the health care needs of veterans in highly rural areas.

Veteran-Centered Access to Coordinated Health Care Act of 2014

Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL]	Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]	Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]
Rep. William Enyart [D-IL]	Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]	Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]
Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]
Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]	Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]	Rep. Aaron Schock [R-IL]	Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]
Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]	Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH]	Rep. Fred Upton [R-MI]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]
Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-01-13	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

SB1985 (Related) 2014-02-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3858/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr3858/BILLS-113hr3858ih.pdf