Sec. 303. Report on maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among women veterans
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Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives, and make publicly available, a report on maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among women veterans, with a particular focus on racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for women veterans. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following: To the extent practicable— the number of women veterans who have experienced a pregnancy-related death or pregnancy-associated death in the most recent 10 years of available data; the rate of pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births for women veterans; the number of cases of severe maternal morbidity among women veterans in the most recent year of available data; the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates among women veterans; identification of the causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity that are unique to women who have served in the military, including post-traumatic stress disorder, military sexual trauma, and infertility or miscarriages that may be caused by such service; identification of the causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity that are unique to women veterans of color; and identification of any correlations between the former rank of women veterans and their maternal health outcomes. An assessment of the barriers to determining the information required under paragraph
(1)and recommendations for improvements in tracking maternal health outcomes among— women veterans who have health care coverage through the Department; women veterans enrolled in the TRICARE program (as defined in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code); women veterans with employer-based or private insurance; and women veterans enrolled in the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.). Recommendations for legislative and administrative actions to increase access to mental and behavioral health care for women veterans who screen positively for postpartum mental or behavioral health conditions. Recommendations to address homelessness among pregnant and postpartum women veterans. Recommendations on how to effectively educate maternity care providers on best practices for providing maternity care services to women veterans that addresses the unique maternal health care needs of veteran populations. Recommendations to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among women veterans and to address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for each of the groups described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(D)of paragraph (2). Recommendations to improve coordination of care between the Department and non-Department facilities for pregnant and postpartum women veterans, including recommendations to improve training for the directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks, directors of medical facilities of the Department, chiefs of staff of such facilities, maternity care coordinators, and relevant non-Department facilities. An assessment of the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to access maternal health data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services and, if applicable, recommendations to increase such authority. Any other information the Comptroller General determines appropriate with respect to the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among women veterans and to address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for women veterans.
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