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S 2922 114th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security

Enhanced Veteran Healthcare Act of 2016

Introduced: May 11, 2016 Introduced by: Whitehouse, Sheldon Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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May 11, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
May 11, 2016
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Enhanced Veteran Healthcare Act of 2016

This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter into covered partnerships and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of covered VA health-care resources with eligible academic affiliates in order to improve access to, and quality of, VA hospital care and medical services.

The VA shall use non-competitive procedures in the case of a partnership or contract for:

  • coordination, use, or exchange of a clinical service;
  • use of medical equipment or space;
  • research;
  • construction or lease of clinical space;
  • use of any full-time equivalent VA employee or contractor; or
  • use of any full-time equivalent employee jointly hired by the VA and an eligible academic affiliate.
What's happening now May 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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