Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “VA Vendor Verification Act”.
VA Vendor Verification Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish credentialing requirements for medical vendors.
Sec. 2 Department of Veterans Affairs credentialing requirements for medical vendors
In general— Subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
“8129. Credentialing requirements for medical vendors
“(a) In general—The Secretary shall establish uniform standards applicable to the credentialing of all medical vendors from which the Secretary procures goods or services. Such standards shall be based on the standards prescribed in the document entitled “Joint Recommendation for Healthcare Industry Representative (HCIR) Credentialing Best Practices” by the Coalition for Best Practices in HCIR Requirements. The Secretary shall update such standards to be consistant with any revision or update to the Joint Recommendation for Healthcare Industry Representative (HCIR) Credentialing Best Practices.
“(b) Medical vendor defined—In this section, the term “medical vendor” means a health care industry representative, including a surgical implant vendor.”
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subchapter II the following new item:
Applicability— Section 8129 of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply—
to any medical vendor (as such term is defined in subsection (b) of such section) with whom the Secretary of Veterans Affairs enters into a contract on or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
to a medical vendor (as such term is defined in subsection (b) of such section) with whom the Secretary has entered into a contract before the date of the enactment of this Act under which the medical vendor is obligated to provide goods or services on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, on or after the date this is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.