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(K) Requirements on the provision of edu-
cational and vocational training and rehabilita-
tion opportunities for covered servicemembers in
medical hold or medical holdover status or on the
temporary disability retired list.
(L) Procedures for tracking and informing
covered servicemembers in medical hold or med-
ical holdover status or on the temporary dis-
ability retired list about medical evaluation
board and physical disability evaluation board
processing.
(M) Requirements for integrated case man-
agement of covered servicemembers in medical
hold or medical holdover status or on the tem-
porary disability retired list during their transi-
tion from care and treatment through the De-
partment of Defense to care and treatment
through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(N) Requirements and standards for advis-
ing and training, as appropriate, family mem-
bers 
with 
respect 
to 
care 
for 
covered
servicemembers in medical hold or medical hold-
over status or on the temporary disability retired
list with serious medical conditions, particularly
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traumatic brain injury (TBI), burns, and post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(O) Requirements for periodic reassessments
of covered servicemembers, and limits on the
length of time such servicemembers may be re-
tained in medical hold or medical holdover sta-
tus or on the temporary disability retired list.
(P) 
Requirements 
to 
inform 
covered
servicemembers and their family members of
their rights and responsibilities while in medical
hold or medical holdover status or on the tem-
porary disability retired list.
(Q) The requirement to establish a Depart-
ment of Defense-wide Ombudsman Office within
the Office of the Secretary of Defense to provide
oversight of the ombudsman offices in the mili-
tary departments and policy guidance to such of-
fices with respect to providing assistance to, and
answering 
questions 
from, 
covered
servicemembers and their families.
(2) MEDICAL EVALUATION AND PHYSICAL DIS-
ABILITY
EVALUATION
FOR
COVERED
SERVICEMEMBERS.—
(A) 
MEDICAL
EVALUATIONS.—Processes,
procedures, and standards for medical evalua-
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tions of covered servicemembers, including the
following:
(i) Processes for medical evaluations of
covered servicemembers that are—
(I) applicable uniformly through-
out the military departments; and
(II) applicable uniformly with re-
spect to such servicemembers who are
members of the regular components of
the 
Armed 
Forces 
and 
such
servicemembers who are members of the
National Guard and Reserve.
(ii) Standard criteria and definitions
for determining the achievement for covered
servicemembers of the maximum medical
benefit from treatment and rehabilitation.
(iii) Standard timelines for each of the
following:
(I) Determinations of fitness for
duty of covered servicemembers.
(II) Specialty consultations for
covered servicemembers.
(III) Preparation of medical doc-
uments for covered servicemembers.
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(IV) 
Appeals 
by 
covered
servicemembers of medical evaluation
determinations, including determina-
tions of fitness for duty.
(iv) Uniform standards for qualifica-
tions and training of medical evaluation
board personnel, including physicians, case
workers, and physical disability evaluation
board liaison officers, in conducting medical
evaluations of covered servicemembers.
(v) Standards for the maximum num-
ber of medical evaluation cases of covered
servicemembers that are pending before a
medical evaluation board at any one time,
and requirements for the establishment of
additional medical evaluation boards in the
event such number is exceeded.
(vi) Uniform standards for informa-
tion for covered servicemembers, and their
families, on the medical evaluation board
process and the rights and responsibilities of
such servicemembers under that process, in-
cluding a standard handbook on such infor-
mation.