Sec. 404. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON EFFORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO INTEGRATE MENTAL HEALTH CARE INTO PRIMARY CARE CLINICS
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## SEC. 404 COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON EFFORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO INTEGRATE MENTAL HEALTH CARE INTO PRIMARY CARE CLINICS ###
(a)Initial Report ####
(1)In general Not later than two 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 a report on the efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs to integrate mental health care into primary care clinics of the Department. ####
(2)Elements The report required by subsection
(a)shall include the following: #####
(A)An assessment of the efforts of the Department to integrate mental health care into primary care clinics of the Department. #####
(B)An assessment of the effectiveness of such efforts. #####
(C)An assessment of how the health care of veterans is impacted by such integration. #####
(D)A description of how care is coordinated by the Department between specialty mental health care and primary care, including a description of the following: ######
(i)How documents and patient information are transferred and the effectiveness of those transfers. ######
(ii)How care is coordinated when veterans must travel to different facilities of the Department. ######
(iii)How a veteran is reintegrated into primary care after receiving in-patient mental health care. #####
(E)An assessment of how the integration of mental health care into primary care clinics is implemented at different types of facilities of the Department. #####
(F)Such recommendations on how the Department can better integrate mental health care into primary care clinics as the Comptroller General considers appropriate. #####
(G)An assessment of such other areas as the Comptroller General considers appropriate to study. ###
(b)Community Care Integration Report ####
(1)In general Not later than two years after the date on which the Comptroller General submits the report required under subsection (a)(1), the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the efforts of the Department to integrate community-based mental health care into the Veterans Health Administration. ####
(2)Elements The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: #####
(A)An assessment of the efforts of the Department to integrate community-based mental health care into the Veterans Health Administration. #####
(B)An assessment of the effectiveness of such efforts. #####
(C)An assessment of how the health care of veterans is impacted by such integration. #####
(D)A description of how care is coordinated between providers of community-based mental health care and the Veterans Health Administration, including a description of how documents and patient information are transferred and the effectiveness of those transfers between— ######
(i)the Veterans Health Administration and providers of community-based mental health care; and ######
(ii)providers of community-based mental health care and the Veterans Health Administration. #####
(E)An assessment of any disparities in the coordination of community-based mental health care into the Veterans Health Administration by location and type of facility. #####
(F)An assessment of the military cultural competency of health care providers providing community-based mental health care to veterans. #####
(G)Such recommendations on how the Department can better integrate community-based mental health care into the Veterans Health Administration as the Comptroller General considers appropriate. #####
(H)An assessment of such other areas as the Comptroller General considers appropriate to study. ####
(3)Community-based mental health care defined In this subsection, the term “community-based mental health care” means mental health care paid for by the Department but provided by a non-Department health care provider at a non-Department facility, including care furnished under section 1703 of title 38, United States Code (as in effect on the date specified in section 101(b) of the Caring for Our Veterans Act of 2018 (title I of Public Law 115-182)).
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Sec. 404
COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON EFFORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO INTEGRATE MENTAL HEALTH CARE INTO PRIMARY CARE CLINICS
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