To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transmit a veteran's history of opioid prescriptions to a Community Care health care provider.
Sponsored By: Representative Collins, Mike [R-GA-10]
Introduced
Summary
Would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to share a veteran's opioid prescription history with outside health providers and third-party administrators. This aims to improve care coordination and monitoring of opioid prescriptions for veterans who get care from non-VA clinicians or through VA third-party arrangements.
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- Veterans: Makes a veteran's VA opioid prescription records available to clinicians outside the VA so treatment decisions reflect the veteran's full prescription history.
- Non-Department health care providers: Gives outside providers furnishing care under VA arrangements direct access to VA opioid records to support safer prescribing and follow-up.
- Third-party administrators: Requires transmission to third-party administrators as defined in existing law so administrators overseeing community care get the same opioid history.
- Legal framework: The sharing is governed by the standards in Section 1703C and uses the definition of "Third Party Administrator" from Section 1703B, keeping eligibility rules for a "covered veteran" as currently defined.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
VA sends opioid records to community providers
If enacted, VA would send a covered veteran's opioid prescription history from VA records to the outside clinician treating them under VA community care. It would also send that history to the third-party administrator that helps manage the veteran's community care. This requirement would apply only to covered veterans receiving VA community care and would use the existing definition of "Third Party Administrator" in current law.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Collins, Mike [R-GA-10]
GA • R
Cosponsors
Pfluger
TX • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Rep. Luttrell, Morgan [R-TX-8]
TX • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Babin
TX • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Rep. Baird, James R. [R-IN-4]
IN • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Rogers (KY)
KY • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Rep. Fuller, Clay [R-GA-14]
GA • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Rep. Harrigan, Pat [R-NC-10]
NC • R
Sponsored 5/13/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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