Sec. 713. Brain health and trauma demonstration program
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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct an intensive comprehensive brain health and trauma demonstration program (in this section referred to as the Program ) to provide coordinated, integrated, multi-disciplinary specialist evaluations, treatment initiation, and aftercare coordination in a highly condensed model for members of the Armed Forces and their family members. The Secretary shall carry out the Program for a four-year period beginning on the commencement of the Program.
In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall provide evidence-based treatment for traumatic brain injury, blast overpressure, blast exposure, and psychological or neurological conditions that are common among members of the Armed Forces. The Program shall include the following: Evaluations by health care providers in the areas of brain injury medicine, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, neuroendocrinology, sports medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, vestibular physical therapy, neuroimaging, and hormonal evaluation.
Metabolic testing, cardiovascular testing, and cerebrovascular testing. Treatment relating to headaches, sleep interventions and medication, injection-based therapies for musculoskeletal pain, cognitive rehabilitation, vestibular physical therapy, and exercise programming. In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall seek to enter into an agreement with private sector non-profit healthcare organizations that have the capacity and infrastructure to provide the care and services required under the Program.
In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall ensure that any treatment received by a member of the Armed Forces under the Program is documented in the medical record of such member. Not later than December 31, 2025, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the Program, which shall include— an assessment of the benefits of the Program to members of the Armed Forces and their families; an identification of the number of individuals assisted under the Program; a description of the type of care or services received under the Program; an identification of the rate of members of the Armed Forces returning to duty after receiving care or services under the Program; an assessment of how the Program is ensuring that records of members of the Armed Forces are updated with care or services provided under the Program; and an assessment of whether and how the Program should be expanded.