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10 U.S.C. § 1074f — Medical tracking system for members deployed overseas
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**(a) System Required.—** The Secretary of Defense shall establish a system to assess the medical condition of members of the armed forces (including members of the reserve components) who are deployed outside the United States or its territories or possessions as part of a contingency operation (including a humanitarian operation, peacekeeping operation, or similar operation) or combat operation.
**(b) Elements of System.—**
(1)
(A) The system described in subsection (a) shall include the use of predeployment medical examinations and postdeployment medical examinations (including the assessment of mental health and the drawing of blood samples) and postdeployment health reassessments to—
(i) accurately record the health status of members before their deployment;
(ii) accurately record any changes in their health status during the course of their deployment;
(iii) identify health concerns, including mental health concerns, that may become manifest several months following their deployment; and
(iv) accurately record any exposure to occupational and environmental health risks during the course of their deployment.
(B) The postdeployment medical examination shall be conducted when the member is redeployed or otherwise leaves an area in which the system is in operation (or as soon as possible thereafter).
(C) The postdeployment health reassessment shall be conducted at an appropriate time during the period beginning 90 days after the member is redeployed and ending 180 days after the member is redeployed.
(2) The predeployment medical examination, postdeployment medical examination, and postdeployment health reassessment of a member of the armed forces required under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) An assessment of the curr
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**(a) System Required.—** The Secretary of Defense shall establish a system to assess the medical condition of members of the armed forces (including members of the reserve components) who are deployed outside the United States or its territories or possessions as part of a contingency operation (including a humanitarian operation, peacekeeping operation, or similar operation) or combat operation.
**(b) Elements of System.—**
(1)
(A) The system described in subsection (a) shall include the use of predeployment medical examinations and postdeployment medical examinations (including the assessment of mental health and the drawing of blood samples) and postdeployment health reassessments to—
(i) accurately record the health status of members before their deployment;
(ii) accurately record any changes in their health status during the course of their deployment;
(iii) identify health concerns, including mental health concerns, that may become manifest several months following their deployment; and
(iv) accurately record any exposure to occupational and environmental health risks during the course of their deployment.
(B) The postdeployment medical examination shall be conducted when the member is redeployed or otherwise leaves an area in which the system is in operation (or as soon as possible thereafter).
(C) The postdeployment health reassessment shall be conducted at an appropriate time during the period beginning 90 days after the member is redeployed and ending 180 days after the member is redeployed.
(2) The predeployment medical examination, postdeployment medical examination, and postdeployment health reassessment of a member of the armed forces required under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) An assessment of the current treatment of the member and any use of psychotropic medications by the member for a mental health condition or disorder.
(B) An assessment of traumatic brain injury.
(C) An assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
(D) An assessment of whether the member was—
(i) based or stationed at a location where an open burn pit, as defined in subsection (c) of section 201 of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–260; [38 U.S.C. 527](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section527&num=0&edition=prelim) note), was used; or
(ii) exposed to toxic airborne chemicals or other airborne contaminants, including any information recorded as part of the registry established by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under such section 201.
(3)
(A) The Secretary shall establish for purposes of subparagraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (2) a protocol for the predeployment assessment and documentation of the cognitive (including memory) functioning of a member who is deployed outside the United States in order to facilitate the assessment of the postdeployment cognitive (including memory) functioning of the member.
(B) The protocol under subparagraph (A) shall include appropriate mechanisms to permit the differential diagnosis of traumatic brain injury in members returning from deployment in a combat zone.
**(c) Recordkeeping.—** The results of all medical examinations and reassessments conducted under the system, records of all health care services (including immunizations and the prescription and administration of psychotropic medications) received by members described in subsection (a) in anticipation of their deployment or during the course of their deployment, and records of events occurring in the deployment area (including the results of any assessment performed by the Secretary of occupational and environmental health risks for such area) that may affect the health of such members shall be retained and maintained in a centralized location to improve future access to the records.
**(d) Quality Assurance.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall establish a quality assurance program to evaluate the success of the system in ensuring that members described in subsection (a) receive predeployment medical examinations, postdeployment medical examinations, and postdeployment health reassessments and that the recordkeeping requirements with respect to the system are met.
(2) The quality assurance program established under paragraph (1) shall also include the following elements:
(A) The types of healthcare providers conducting postdeployment health assessments and reassessments.
(B) The training received by such providers applicable to the conduct of such assessments and reassessments, including training on assessments and referrals relating to mental health.
(C) The guidance available to such providers on how to apply the clinical practice guidelines developed under subsection (e)(1) in determining whether to make a referral for further evaluation of a member of the armed forces relating to mental health.
(D) The effectiveness of the tracking mechanisms required under this section in ensuring that members who receive referrals for further evaluations relating to mental health receive such evaluations and obtain such care and services as are warranted.
(E) Programs established for monitoring the mental health of each member who, after deployment to a combat operation or contingency operations, is known—
(i) to have a mental health condition or disorder; or
(ii) to be receiving treatment, including psychotropic medications, for a mental health condition or disorder.
(F) The diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
**(e) Criteria for Referral for Further Evaluations.—** The system described in subsection (a) shall include—
(1) development of clinical practice guidelines to be utilized by healthcare providers in determining whether to refer a member of the armed forces for further evaluation relating to mental health (including traumatic brain injury);
(2) mechanisms to ensure that healthcare providers are trained in the application of such clinical practice guidelines; and
(3) mechanisms for oversight to ensure that healthcare providers apply such guidelines consistently.
**(f) Minimum Standards for Deployment.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations minimum standards for mental health for the eligibility of a member of the armed forces for deployment to a combat operation or contingency operation.
(2) The standards required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) A specification of the mental health conditions, treatment for such conditions, and receipt of psychotropic medications for such conditions that preclude deployment of a member of the armed forces to a combat operation or contingency operation, or to a specified type of such operation.
(B) Guidelines for the deployability and treatment of members of the armed forces diagnosed with a severe mental illness, traumatic brain injury, or post traumatic stress disorder.
(3) The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to ensure the utilization of the standards prescribed under paragraph (1) in the making of determinations regarding the deployability of members of the armed forces to a combat operation or contingency operation.
**(g) Additional Requirements for Postdeployment Medical Examinations and Health Reassessments.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall standardize and make available to a provider that conducts a postdeployment medical examination or reassessment under the system described in subsection (a) questions relating to occupational and environmental health exposure.
(2) The Secretary, to the extent practicable, shall ensure that the medical record of a member includes information on the external cause relating to a diagnosis of the member, including by associating an external cause code (as issued under the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (or any successor revision)).
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**(a) Transitional Health Care.—**
(1) For the time period described in paragraph (4), a member of the armed forces who is separated from active service as described in paragraph (2) (and the dependents of the member) shall be entitled to receive—
(A) except as provided in paragraph (3), medical and dental care under [section 1076 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1076&num=0&edition=prelim) in the same manner as a dependent described in subsection (a)(2) of such section; and
(B) health benefits contracted under the authority of [section 1079(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1079/a&num=0&edition=prelim) and subject to the same rates and conditions as apply to persons covered under that section.
(2) This subsection applies to the following members of the armed forces:
(A) A member who is involuntarily separated from active duty.
(B) A member of a reserve component who is separated from active duty to which called or ordered under [section 12304b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12304b&num=0&edition=prelim) or a provision of law referred to in [section 101(a)(13)(B) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section101/a/13/B&num=0&edition=prelim) if the active duty is active duty for a period of more than 30 days.
(C) A member who is separated from active duty for which the member is involuntarily retained under [section 12305 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12305&num=0&edition=prelim) in support of a contingency operation.
(D) A member who is separated from active duty served purs
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**(a)** The Secretary, pursuant to general standards which the Secretary shall prescribe in regulations, shall measure and evaluate on a continuing basis the effect of all programs authorized under this title, in order to determine their effectiveness in achieving stated goals in general, and in achieving such goals in relation to their cost, their effect on related programs, and their structure and mechanisms for delivery of services. Such information as the Secretary may consider necessary for purposes of such evaluations shall be made available to the Secretary, upon request, by all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch.
**(b)** In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall collect, collate, and analyze on a continuing basis full statistical data regarding participation (including the duration thereof), provision of services, categories of beneficiaries, planning and construction of facilities, acquisition of real property, proposed excessing of land, accretion and attrition of personnel, and categorized expenditures attributable thereto, under all programs carried out under this title.
**(c)** The Secretary shall make available to the public, and on a regular basis provide to the appropriate committees of the Congress, copies of all completed evaluative research studies and summaries of evaluations of program impact and effectiveness carried out, and tabulations and analyses of all data collected, under this section.
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**(a)**
(1) Under joint regulations to be prescribed by the administering Secretaries, a member of a uniformed service described in paragraph (2) is entitled to medical and dental care in any facility of any uniformed service.
(2) Members of the uniformed services referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows:
(A) A member of a uniformed service on active duty.
(B) A member of a reserve component of a uniformed service who has been commissioned as an officer if—
(i) the member has requested orders to active duty for the member’s initial period of active duty following the commissioning of the member as an officer;
(ii) the request for orders has been approved;
(iii) the orders are to be issued but have not been issued or the orders have been issued but the member has not entered active duty; and
(iv) the member does not have health care insurance and is not covered by any other health benefits plan.
**(b)**
(1) Under joint regulations to be prescribed by the administering Secretaries, a member or former member of a uniformed service who is entitled to retired or retainer pay, or equivalent pay may, upon request, be given medical and dental care in any facility of any uniformed service, subject to the availability of space and facilities and the capabilities of the medical and dental staff. The administering Secretaries may, with the agreement of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, provide care to persons covered by this subsection in facilities operated by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and determined by him to be available for this purpose on a reimbursable basis at rates approved by the President.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a member or former member entitled to retired pay for non-regular service under chapter 1223 of this title
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**(a) Mental Health Assessments.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall provide a person-to-person mental health assessment for each member of the armed forces who is deployed in support of a contingency operation as follows:
(A) Once during the period beginning 120 days before the date of the deployment.
(B) Once during each 180-day period during which a member is deployed.
(C) Subject to paragraph (3) and subsection (d), once during the period beginning on the date of redeployment from the contingency operation and ending on the date that is 21 days after the date on which the post-deployment leave of the member terminates.
(D) Subject to subsection (d), not less than once annually—
(i) beginning 21 days after the date on which the post-deployment leave of the member terminates; or
(ii) if the assessment required by subparagraph (C) is performed during the period specified in paragraph (3), beginning 180 days after the date of redeployment from the contingency operation.
(2) A mental health assessment is not required for a member of the armed forces under subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1) (including an assessment performed pursuant to paragraph (3)) if the Secretary determines that providing such assessment to the member during the time periods under such subparagraphs would remove the member from forward deployment or put members or operational objectives at risk.
(3) A mental health assessment required under subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) may be provided during the period beginning 90 days after the date of redeployment from the contingency operation and ending 180 days after such redeployment date if the Secretary determines that—
(A) an insufficient number of personnel are available to perform the assessment during the time p
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**(a) Mental Health Assessments.—** Subject to subsection (c), not less frequently than once each calendar year (and before separation from active duty pursuant to [section 1145(a)(5)(A) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1145/a/5/A&num=0&edition=prelim)), the Secretary of Defense shall provide a person-to-person mental health assessment for—
(1) each member of a regular component of the armed forces; and
(2) each member of the Selected Reserve of an armed force.
**(b) Elements.—** The mental health assessments provided pursuant to this section shall—
(1) be conducted in accordance with the requirements of subsection (c)(1) of [section 1074m of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1074m&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to a mental health assessment provided pursuant to such section; and
(2) include a review of the health records of the member that are related to each previous health assessment or other relevant activities of the member while serving in the armed forces, as determined by the Secretary.
**(c) Sufficiency of Other Mental Health Assessments.—**
(1) The Secretary is not required to provide a mental health assessment pursuant to this section to an individual in a calendar year in which the individual has received a mental health assessment pursuant to [section 1074m of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1074m&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The Secretary may treat periodic health assessments and other person-to-person assessments that are provided to members of the armed forces, including examinations under [section 1074f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 1074f
ticipated deployment conditions and various methods
of contraception.
‘‘(2) During health care visits during deployment.
‘‘(3) During annual physical examinations.’’
DEFENSE WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAM
Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title II, § 241, Oct. 5, 1994, 108
Stat. 2701, provided for the continuance of the Defense
Women’s Health Research Program established pursu-
ant to the authority in section 251 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public
Law 103–160; 107 Stat. 1606, formerly set out below) and
appropriated funds to the program for fiscal year 1995.
Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title II, § 251, Nov. 30, 1993, 107
Stat. 1606, authorized the Secretary of Defense to es-
tablish a Defense Women’s Health Research Center to
serve as the coordinating agent for multidisciplinary
and multi-institutional research within the Depart-
ment of Defense on women’s health issues related to
service in the Armed Forces and required the Secretary
to report to Congress on the decision to establish the
Center no later than May 1, 1994.
REPORT ON PROVISION OF PRIMARY AND PREVENTATIVE
HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR WOMEN
Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title VII, § 735, Nov. 30, 1993, 107
Stat. 1698, directed the Secretary of Defense to prepare
a report evaluating the provision of primary and pre-
ventive health care services through military medical
treatment facilities and the Civilian Health and Med-
ical Program of the Uniformed Services to female
members of the uniformed services and female covered
beneficiaries eligible for health care under this chapter,
and directed the Secretary, as part of such report, to
conduct a study to determine the health care needs of
female members and female covered bene
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 525
‘‘(B) An assessment of the benefits to veterans of
the pilot program.
‘‘(C) The recommendations of the Secretary as to
the advisability of continuing the pilot program.’’
§ 525. Publication of laws relating to veterans
(a) The Secretary may compile and publish all
Federal laws relating to veterans’ relief, includ-
ing laws administered by the Department as
well as by other agencies of the Government.
Such compilation and publication shall be in
such form as the Secretary considers advisable
for the purpose of making currently available in
convenient form for the use of the Department
and full-time representatives of the several serv-
ice organizations an annotated, indexed, and
cross-referenced statement of the laws providing
veterans’ relief.
(b) The Secretary may maintain such compila-
tion on a current basis either by the publication,
from time to time, of supplementary documents
or by complete revision of the compilation.
(c) The distribution of the compilation to the
representatives of the several service organiza-
tions shall be as determined by the Secretary.
(Added Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105
Stat. 391.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior section 525 was renumbered section 1525 of this
title.
Provisions similar to those in this section were con-
tained in section 215 of this title prior to repeal by Pub.
L. 102–83, § 2(a).
§ 527. Evaluation and data collection
(a) The Secretary, pursuant to general stand-
ards which the Secretary shall prescribe in regu-
lations, shall measure and evaluate on a con-
tinuing basis the effect of all programs author-
ized under this title, in order to determine their
effectiveness in achieving stated goals in gen-
eral, and in achieving such goa
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