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114-hr-5648114th Congress

Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2016

Sponsored By: Representative O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]

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Summary

Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2016 This bill allows an individual who has been diagnosed with a mental health condition and who is transitioning from receiving treatment from the Department of Defense to receiving treatment from in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to elect to continue receiving treatment from such individual's DOD mental health provider. Such individual shall receive the same level of priority as members of the Armed Forces at the facility at which the individual has elected to continue treatment. The VA shall reimburse DOD for rendered services that otherwise would have been furnished by the VA. If the DOD mental health care provider departs the facility at which the covered individual is receiving treatment, such individual may elect to obtain the services of: (1) a different mental health care provider at the same facility, or (2) a VA mental health care provider.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]

TX • D

Cosponsors

  • WALTER JONES

    NC • R

    Sponsored 7/6/2016

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