Sec. 3. Access of veterans to walk-in clinics
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Subchapter I of chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1703 the following new section: The Secretary shall enter into a contract with a national chain of walk-in clinics to provide the hospital care and medical services offered in such clinics to veterans enrolled in the system of annual patient enrollment established and operated under section 1705 of this title. In receiving hospital care or medical services at a walk-in clinic under subsection (a), a veteran is not required— to obtain authorization before receiving such care or services at the clinic; or to pay a copayment to the clinic or the Department in connection with the receipt of such care or services.
The Secretary may not require a national chain of walk-in clinics to expand their locations as a condition of a contract entered into under subsection (a). The national chain of walk-in clinics with which the Secretary has entered into a contract under subsection
(a)shall establish an automated system that transmits to the Secretary on a weekly basis information regarding the hospital care or medical services provided to veterans under this section during such week. The automated system under paragraph
(1)shall be established in a manner that allows the system to securely transmit information to the electronic health record of a veteran regarding the hospital care and medical services provided to the veteran under this section. Transmittal of information under paragraph
(1)may not be required as a condition of payment for hospital care or medical services provided under this section. . The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 17 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1703 the following new item: 1703A. Hospital care and medical services at walk-in clinics. .