Rehabilitative Therapy Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act

Bill: 113-hr-1705
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2013-04-24
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Allied health services

Health care coverage and access

Military medicine
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Rehabilitative Therapy Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act - Allows rehabilitative authority provided for beneficiaries under the Department of Defense (DOD) TRICARE program (a DOD managed care program) to include therapeutic exercises or activities included in the authorized plan of care of the individual receiving such therapy.</p> <p>Allows such activities or exercises to further include therapies provided on a horse, balance board, ball, bolster, and bench.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1705 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 24, 2013 Mr. Burgess (for himself and Mr. Cotton ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for certain forms of physical therapy under the TRICARE program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rehabilitative Therapy Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act . 2. Inclusion of certain forms of physical therapy under TRICARE Section 1077 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(17), by inserting In accordance with subsection (g), before Any ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (g) Rehabilitative therapy provided pursuant to subsection (a)(17) may include additional therapeutic exercises or therapeutic activities if such exercises or activities are included in the authorized individual plan of care of the individual receiving such therapy. Such exercises or activities may include, in addition to other therapeutic exercises or therapeutic activities, therapies provided on a horse, balance board, ball, bolster, and bench. .