Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act aims to reimburse or furnish costly medications to State homes caring for veterans.
The Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act seeks to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure the Secretary of Veterans Affairs either reimburses or furnishes costly medications to State homes providing nursing home care to veterans. A "costly medication" is defined as a drug or medicine where the average wholesale price for one month's supply, plus a 3 percent transaction fee, exceeds 8.5 percent of the payment made to the State home for care provided to the veteran.
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