Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021
Summary
Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021 This bill requires hospitals, as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation, to use specified technology to monitor patients for opioid-induced respiratory depression for 12 hours after the administration of an opioid or until the patient is discharged, whichever is earlier, unless a health care practitioner determines before administering an opioid that such monitoring should not be used and records this determination in the patient's record.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Nov 9, 2021
Last action Nov 10, 2021
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Total actions
4
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Committee
3
Nov 10, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Nov 9, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Nov 9, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Nov 9, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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