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HR 5932 117th Congress House Health

Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021

Introduced: November 9, 2021 See on congress.gov
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Nov 10, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 9, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 9, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Nov 9, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now November 10, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Emmer, Tom
Minnesota · Nov 9, 2021
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5932: Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5932/
MLA
"H.R. 5932: Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5932/.
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H.R. 5932, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5932/.
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[H.R. 5932: Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5932/)
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