Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act

This bill changes federal law on how the Department of Veterans Affairs pays State homes that provide nursing home care to veterans under a contract or agreement. In addition to its regular payment, the VA would have to either repay a State home for the cost of a "costly medication" given to a veteran or provide that medication directly, depending on which option the State home chooses. A medication counts as costly if one month's supply at average wholesale price, plus a 3 percent transaction fee, is more than 8.5 percent of the VA's payment to the State home for that veteran's care that month.

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Sponsors

• Angus S. King, Jr. Independent sponsor
• 1 cosponsors