H.R. 4689: Timely Payment for Veterans' Emergency Care Act

114th Congress · introduced 2016-03-03 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Where it came from: introduced 2016-03-03 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Timely Payment for Veterans' Emergency Care Act

Plain summary

Timely Payment for Veterans' Emergency Care Act This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into contracts with an eligible entity to serve as an administrative contractor with respect to the performance of any or all of the following functions relating to providing medical care and hospital services in non-VA facilities: determining and making the payments required to be made to a non-VA facility; providing education and outreach to individuals enrolled in the patient enrollment system; providing consultative services to institutions, agencies, and other persons to enable them to maintain necessary fiscal records; communicating to non-VA facilities any information or instructions furnished to the administrative contractor by the VA; and performing functions relating to non-VA facility education, training, and technical assistance. An administrative contractor that performs such payment-related functions shall implement a contractor-wide information security program. The VA shall use claims payment error rates or similar methodology of administrative contractors in the processing or reviewing of claims in order to give such contractors an incentive to implement effective education and outreach programs for non-VA facilities.

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Official text

Timely Payment for Veterans' Emergency Care Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3] · 1 cosponsors

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr4689.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>

Record fed-us-cong114-hr4689 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114