Sec. 734. Report on plans to improve experience with and eliminate performance variability of health care provided by the Department of Defense
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a comprehensive report setting forth the current and future plans of the Secretary, with estimated dates of completion, to carry out the following: To improve the experience of beneficiaries with health care provided in military medical treatment facilities and through purchased care. To eliminate performance variability with respect to the provision of such health care. The comprehensive report required by paragraph
(1)shall include the plans of the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments, as follows: To align performance measures for health care provided in military medical treatment facilities with performance measures for health care provided through purchased care. To improve underperformance in the provision of health care by the Department of Defense by eliminating performance variability with respect to the provision of health care in military medical treatment facilities and through purchased care. To use innovative, high-technology services to improve access to care, coordination of care, and the experience of care in military medical treatment facilities and through purchased care. To collect and analyze data throughout the Department with respect to health care provided in military medical treatment facilities and through purchased care to improve the quality of such care, patient safety, and patient satisfaction. To develop a performance management system, including by adoption of common measures for access to care, quality of care, safety, and patient satisfaction, that holds medical leadership throughout the Department personally accountable for sustained improvement of performance. To use such other methods as the Secretary considers appropriate to improve the experience of beneficiaries with and eliminate performance variability with respect to health care received from the Department. Not later than 180 days after the submittal of the comprehensive report required by subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the plans of the Secretary of Defense set forth in the comprehensive report submitted under such subsection. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: An assessment whether the plans included in the comprehensive report submitted under subsection
(a)will, with respect to members of the Armed Forces and covered beneficiaries under the TRICARE program— improve health outcomes; create lasting health value; and ensure that such individuals are able to equitably obtain quality health care in all military medical treatment facilities and through purchased care. An assessment whether such plans can be reasonably achieved within the estimated dates of completion set forth by the Department under such subsection. An assessment whether any such plan would require legislative action for the implementation of such plan. An assessment whether the Department of Defense has adequately budgeted amounts to fund the carrying out of such plans. In this section: The term purchased care means health care provided pursuant to a contract entered into under the TRICARE program. The terms covered beneficiary and TRICARE program have the meaning given such terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.