US Congress House Bill 2652 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 25 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the deaths of all covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A "covered veteran" is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death. The review shall include: the total numbers of veterans who died by suicide, violent death, or accidental death; the percentage of such veterans with combat experience or related trauma; each veteran's age, gender, race, and ethnicity; a list of medications and substances prescribed to such veterans; a summary of medical diagnoses that led to such prescriptions in cases of anxiety and depressive disorders; the number of instances in which such a veteran was concurrently on multiple prescribed medications; the number of such veterans who were not taking any prescribed medication; the percentage of such veterans treated for anxiety or depressive disorders who received a non-medication first-line treatment compared to the percentage who received medication only; descriptions of how the VA determines and updates clinical practice guidelines for prescribing medications and of VA efforts to maintain appropriate staffing levels for mental health professionals; an analysis of VA's use of systematically measuring pain scores during clinical encounters and how that relates to the number of veterans concurrently on multiple prescribed medications; identification of VA medical facilities with markedly high prescription rates and suicide rates for treated veterans; an analysis of VA programs that collaborate with state Medicaid agencies and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; an analysis of VA medical center collaboration with medical examiners' offices or local jurisdictions to determine veteran mortality and cause of death; identification of a best practice model to collect and share veteran death certificate data; a description of how data relating to death certificates of veterans is collected, determined, and reported by the VA; an assessment of any apparent patterns based on the review; and recommendations to improve the safety and well-being of veterans. The VA shall ensure that such data is compiled in a manner that allows it to be analyzed across all data fields for purposes of informing and updating VA clinical practice guidelines.

Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017

Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]
Rep. Jack Bergman [R-MI]	Rep. Mike Bost [R-IL]	Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]
Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. Ron DeSantis [R-FL]
Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]	Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Mike Johnson [R-LA]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]
Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]
Sen. Roger Marshall [R-KS]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]
Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-05-25	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2017-05-25	House	Introduced in House

SB788 (Related) 2017-03-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
SB992 (Same As) 2017-05-01 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
HB5531 (Related) 2018-05-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2652/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr2652/BILLS-115hr2652ih.pdf