Bill > HR5794

This bill, the Veterans Affairs Peer Review Neutrality Act of 2023, aims to eliminate conflicts of interest in the conduct of quality management and administrative investigations by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring individuals responsible for conducting peer reviews or serving on peer review committees to withdraw from cases where they have direct involvement or are unable to provide an objective, impartial, and informed review. The bill also mandates that each VHA medical facility develop procedures to have initial peer reviews of a health care provider who is a member of the facility's peer review committee evaluated by a neutral peer review committee at another VHA facility. 2. Prohibiting individuals with knowledge of confidential quality assurance information specific to a matter under investigation by an administrative investigation board or factfinder from serving on the board or as a factfinder, or from disclosing such information to the board or factfinder. The bill also requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that administrative investigation board members and factfinders do not have personal interests, direct involvement, or supervisory or personal relationships with the subject of the investigation, and to recuse themselves if such conflicts exist.

Health and Social Services, Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5794/all-info