Sec. 3. GAO report
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Not later than the end of fiscal year 2027, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Congress an interim report assessing the results achieved through this Act and the amendments made by this Act, including— the number of patients who moved into temporary or permanent housing; the number of patients who have established within their respective Continuum of Care awaiting housing placement; patients diagnosed with a substance use disorder and number who received treatment; the number of health care professionals providing care to unsheltered homeless individuals; how efficient and sufficient reimbursements were for provided care, including any difficulties health care professionals experienced in being reimbursed; the number of unique people receiving street medicine services; the number of total patient visits provided by street medicine teams; a report from street medicine providers detailing barriers to accessing non-street medicine primary care healthcare services such as specialty care, medications, and diagnostic studies; and an analysis of participating street medicine providers’ ability to sustain a sufficient amount of street medicine providers to provide adequate care to its unsheltered homeless population, No later than 120 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services shall promulgate rules for data collection necessary to complete this report, without creating barriers which negatively impact the effective provision of health care.
To ensure this, the Secretary shall also create and maintain an online platform through which health care professional participating in the Program may provide feedback on the Program as a whole, and such platform must be open for submissions 24/7. The online platform must be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.