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H.R. 5932 (117th)

Inpatient Opioid Safety Act of 2021

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Introduced

9 November 2021

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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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