Sec. 733. Display of wait times at urgent care clinics, emergency departments, and pharmacies of military treatment facilities
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Not later than January 1, 2018, the commander or director of a military treatment facility shall place in a conspicuous location at each urgent care clinic and emergency department of the military treatment facility an electronic sign that displays the current average wait time determined under paragraph
(2)for a patient to be seen by a qualified medical professional. In carrying out paragraph (1), every 30 minutes, the commander or director, as the case may be, shall determine the average wait time to display under such paragraph by calculating, for the four-hour period preceding the calculation, the average length of time beginning at the time of the arrival of a patient at the urgent care clinic or emergency department, as the case may be, and ending at the time at which the patient is first seen by a qualified medical professional. Not later than January 1, 2018, the commander or director of a military treatment facility shall place in a conspicuous location at each pharmacy of the military treatment facility an electronic sign that displays the current average wait time to receive a filled prescription for a pharmaceutical agent. In carrying out paragraph (1), every 30 minutes, the commander or director, as the case may be, shall determine the average wait time to display under such paragraph by calculating, for the four-hour period preceding the calculation, the average length of time beginning at the time of submission by a patient of a prescription for a pharmaceutical agent and ending at the time at which the pharmacy dispenses the pharmaceutical agent to the patient. In this section, the term qualified medical professional means a doctor of medicine, a doctor of osteopathy, a physician assistant, or an advanced registered nurse practitioner.