H.R. 6066 · 115th Congress
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the productivity of the management of Department of Veterans Affairs health care, and for other purposes.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Brad Wenstrup
- Introduced
- 2018-06-08
- Latest action
- 2018-11-16 · Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-1034.
Summary
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to:
track VA provider workloads considering the time, mental effort and judgment, technical skill, physical effort, and stress involved in delivering a procedure; require VA providers to attend training on clinical procedure coding; and establish standardized performance standards for each VA facility in order to evaluate clinical productivity at the provider and facility levels.