Sec. 105. Prompt payment by Department of Veterans Affairs
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It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall comply with section 1315 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations (commonly known as the prompt payment rule ), or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling, in paying for health care pursuant to contracts entered into with non-Department of Veterans Affairs providers to provide health care under the laws administered by the Secretary. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish and implement a system to process and pay claims for payment for hospital care, medical services, and other health care furnished by non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers under the laws administered by the Secretary.
The system established and implemented under paragraph
(1)shall comply with all requirements of chapter 39, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Prompt Payment Act ). Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on the timeliness of payments by the Secretary for hospital care, medical services, and other health care furnished by non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers under the laws administered by the Secretary. The report required by subsection
(b)shall include the following: The results of a survey of non-Department health care providers who have submitted claims to the Department for hospital care, medical services, or other health care furnished to veterans for which payment is authorized under the laws administered by the Secretary during the one-year period preceding the submittal of the report, which survey shall include the following: The amount of time it took for such health care providers, after submitting such claims, to receive payment from the Department for such care or services. A comparison of the amount of time under subparagraph
(A)and the amount of time it takes such health care providers to receive payments from the United States for similar care or services provided to the following, if applicable: Beneficiaries under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq. ). Covered beneficiaries under the TRICARE program under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code. Such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the Comptroller General considers appropriate. In carrying out the survey, the Comptroller General shall seek responses from non-Department health care providers in a manner that ensures that the survey reflects the responses of such providers that— are located in different geographic areas; furnish a variety of different hospital care, medical services, and other health care; and furnish such care and services in a variety of different types of medical facilities.
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