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S 2107 115th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security Department of Veterans Affairs Employee performance Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Health care quality Health information and medical records Health personnel Licensing and registrations Medical ethics Personnel records Veterans' medical care

Department of Veterans Affairs Provider Accountability Act

Introduced: November 9, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Nov 9, 2017
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Department of Veterans Affairs Provider Accountability Act

This bill provides that when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) brings a major adverse action against certain Veterans Health Administration medical employees the VA shall transmit to the National Practitioner Data Bank and the applicable state licensing board the employee's name and the reason for such action.

The VA may not enter into a settlement agreement regarding a claim by a VA employee under which it would be required to conceal a serious medical error or purge a negative record from an employee's personnel file. Such provision shall not apply to a negative record if the VA Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection and the Office of Special Counsel jointly certify that the negative record is not legitimate.

What's happening now November 9, 2017

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

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 3