NOPAIN for Veterans Act

This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to add certain non-opioid pain medicines to its national list of covered drugs (the national formulary). These are FDA-approved drugs or biological products that reduce pain after surgery, provide regional numbness, or treat acute pain without acting on the body's opioid receptors. The VA would have to add each such drug by the earlier of one year after it becomes eligible for certain Medicare payments or 18 months after FDA approval. Money from the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund could not be used for this, and the VA would have to put the changes in place within 90 days of the law taking effect.

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Sponsors

• Shelley Moore Capito Republican sponsor
• 27 cosponsors