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Allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants, working within their State-authorized scope of practice and following any Presidential regulations or instructions, to prescribe, recommend, or order medical services, appliances, and supplies for people who receive medical benefits under the specified provision of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The change clarifies that these mid-level clinicians may perform those prescribing/recommendation functions for the program’s covered beneficiaries for purposes of the referenced subsections.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced June 25, 2025 by John Wright Hickenlooper · Last progress June 25, 2025