Sec. 725. Adjustment of medical services, personnel authorized strengths, and infrastructure in military health system to maintain readiness and core competencies of health care providers
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Except as provided by subsection (c), not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall implement measures to maintain the critical wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies of health care providers within the Armed Forces. The measures under subsection
(a)shall include measures under which the Secretary ensures the following: Medical services provided through the military health system at military medical treatment facilities— maintain the critical wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies of health care providers within the Armed Forces; and ensure the medical readiness of the Armed Forces. The authorized strengths for military and civilian personnel throughout the military health system— maintain the critical wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies of health care providers within the Armed Forces; and ensure the medical readiness of the Armed Forces. The infrastructure in the military health system, including infrastructure of military medical treatment facilities— maintains the critical wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies of health care providers within the Armed Forces; and ensures the medical readiness of the Armed Forces. Any covered beneficiary who may be affected by the measures implemented under subsection
(a)will be able to receive through the purchased care component of the TRICARE program any medical services that will not be available to such covered beneficiary at a military medical treatment facility by reason of such measures. The Secretary is not required to implement measures under subsection (a)(1) with respect to military medical treatment facilities located in a foreign country if the Secretary determines that providing medical services in addition to the medical services described in such subsection is necessary to ensure that covered beneficiaries located in that foreign country have access to a similar level of care available to covered beneficiaries located in the United States. In this section: The term clinical and logistical capabilities means those capabilities relating to the provision of health care that are necessary to accomplish operational requirements, including— combat casualty care; medical response to and treatment of injuries sustained from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive incidents; diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases; aerospace medicine; undersea medicine; diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of specialized medical conditions; diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries that are not related to battle; and humanitarian assistance. The terms covered beneficiary and TRICARE program have the meanings given those terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code. The term critical wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies means those essential medical capabilities, including clinical and logistical capabilities, that are— necessary to be maintained by health care providers within the Armed Forces for national security purposes; and vital to the provision of effective and timely health care during contingency operations.