United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 5932 (117th)
Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021
Introduced
9 November 2021
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Status
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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3 January 2025
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.
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Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 9 November 2021
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 9 November 2021
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 9 November 2021
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5932
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5932