H.R. 5932 · 117th Congress
Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Ann Kuster
- Introduced
- 2021-11-09
- Latest action
- 2021-11-10 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021
This bill requires hospitals, as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation, to use specified technology to monitor patients for opioid-induced respiratory depression for 12 hours after the administration of an opioid or until the patient is discharged, whichever is earlier, unless a health care practitioner determines before administering an opioid that such monitoring should not be used and records this determination in the patient's record.