Sec. 205. Department of Veterans Affairs health care productivity improvement
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Subchapter I of chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is further amended by inserting after section 1705A the following new section: The Secretary shall track relative value units for all Department providers. The Secretary shall require all Department providers to attend training on clinical procedure coding. The Secretary shall establish for each Department facility— standardized performance standards based on nationally recognized relative value unit production standards applicable to each specific profession in order to evaluate clinical productivity at the provider and facility level; remediation plans to address low clinical productivity and clinical inefficiency; and an ongoing process to systematically review the content, implementation, and outcome of the plans developed under paragraph (2).
In this section: The term Department provider means an employee of the Department whose primary responsibilities include furnishing hospital care or medical services, including a physician, a dentist, an optometrist, a podiatrist, a chiropractor, an advanced practice registered nurse, and a physician’s assistant acting as an independent provider. The term relative value unit means a unit for measuring workload by determining the time, mental effort and judgment, technical skill, physical effort, and stress involved in delivering a procedure. .
The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1705A the following new item: 1705B. Management of health care: productivity. . Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the implementation of section 1705B of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a). Such report shall include, for each professional category of Department providers, the relative value unit of such category of providers at the national, Veterans Integrated Service Network, and facility levels.