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HR 4499 114th Congress House

PROP Act of 2016

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove consideration of certain pain-related issues from calculations under the Medicare hospital value-base… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove consideration of certain pain-related issues from calculations under the Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 9, 2016 See on congress.gov
Health Drug therapyHealth care qualityHospital careMedicare
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Became law
Feb 11, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 9, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 9, 2016
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H658-659)
Feb 9, 2016
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 11, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 2758 Related bill PROP Act of 2016
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 21
All 21 Democratic 9 Republican 5
R
Hudson, Richard
North Carolina · Jun 22, 2016
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Apr 21, 2016
 R
Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck"
Tennessee · Apr 21, 2016
 D
Bera, Ami
California · Apr 19, 2016
 D
Keating, William R.
Massachusetts · Apr 18, 2016
 D
Courtney, Joe
Connecticut · Apr 13, 2016
Donovan, Daniel
· Apr 13, 2016
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Apr 11, 2016
 D
Moulton, Seth
Massachusetts · Apr 11, 2016
 D
Clark, Katherine M.
Massachusetts · Mar 22, 2016
Abraham, Ralph
· Mar 14, 2016
Knight, Stephen
· Mar 14, 2016
Rice, Tom
· Mar 7, 2016
 D
Tonko, Paul
New York · Mar 2, 2016
Rooney, Thomas
· Feb 26, 2016
 R
Carter, Earl L. "Buddy"
Georgia · Feb 25, 2016
Jenkins, Evan
· Feb 25, 2016
 R
Walberg, Tim
Michigan · Feb 25, 2016
Comstock, Barbara
· Feb 9, 2016
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Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Feb 9, 2016
 R
Rogers, Harold
Kentucky · Feb 9, 2016
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4499: PROP Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4499/
MLA
"H.R. 4499: PROP Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4499/.
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H.R. 4499, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4499/.
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[H.R. 4499: PROP Act of 2016](https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4499/)
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