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S 2758 114th Congress Senate

PROP Act of 2016

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

Official title: A bill 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: April 7, 2016 Introduced by: Johnson, Ron Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
Health Drug therapyHealth care qualityHospital careMedicare
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 7, 2016
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 Latest action April 7, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 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
  • HR 4499 Related bill PROP Act of 2016
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 2 Republican 3 Independent 1
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Paul, Rand
Kentucky · Jul 14, 2016
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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Apr 28, 2016
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Apr 12, 2016
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Markey, Edward J.
Massachusetts · Apr 12, 2016
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Apr 7, 2016
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Apr 7, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2758: PROP Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2758/
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"S. 2758: PROP Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2758/.
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