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Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
In Committee
Summary
Continuity of mental health care during the DoD-to-VA transition is the bill's main aim. It lets a person moving from Department of Defense treatment to Department of Veterans Affairs care continue seeing their DoD mental health provider while they transfer.
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- Transitioning service members and veterans may elect to keep their Department of Defense mental health provider and receive the same priority as members of the Armed Forces at the military medical treatment facility where they continue care. If the provider departs or the individual relocates and cannot reasonably get care at that facility, the individual may choose another provider at the same facility or transition to a VA provider.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs must reimburse the Department of Defense for services that the VA would otherwise have furnished. The VA must also ensure any DoD mental health provider who treated the covered individual submits copies of those medical records for inclusion in the veteran's VA electronic medical record.
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Keep your military mental health provider
If enacted, this would let you keep seeing your military mental health provider while you move to VA care. You must have a diagnosed mental health condition and be enrolling in the VA patient system, or be newly enrolled and still in transition, as VA determines. You would get the same priority as service members at that military hospital or clinic. VA would reimburse DoD for care VA would have provided. If your provider leaves, you could switch to another military provider at that facility or choose a VA provider. If you move and cannot reasonably get to that facility, you would shift to VA care. When you switch to VA care, your military provider would send your records to VA.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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