H.R. 4499 · 114th Congress
Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing Act of 2016
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Alexander Mooney
- Introduced
- 2016-02-09
- Latest action
- 2016-02-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing Act of 2016 or the PROP Act of 2016
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude certain pain-related measures for purposes of calculating incentive payments under the value-based purchasing program (VBP). (VBP is a program that links hospital payments to the quality of care provided.)
Specifically, VPB measures shall not include measures based on a patient's assessment of: (1) the patient's need for pain medicine during a hospital stay; (2) how often, during the stay, the patient's pain was well controlled; or (3) how often, during the stay, hospital staff did everything they could to help manage the patient's pain.