NOPAIN for Veterans Act

This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to add certain non-opioid pain medicines to its national list of covered drugs. It defines these as drugs or biological products approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce pain after surgery, or to numb pain, without acting on the body's opioid receptors. The VA would have to add such a drug within one year after it becomes eligible for certain separate Medicare payments, and also include it in the VA's drug standardization list. The bill bars using money from the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for this purpose and requires the VA to put the changes in place within 90 days of the law taking effect.

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Sponsors

• Greg Landsman Democrat sponsor
• 36 cosponsors