To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury have access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy at military medical treatment facilities.

Bill: 114-hr-146
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments

Mental health

Military medicine

Military personnel and dependents

Neurological disorders
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Directs the Secretary of Defense to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy available at a military medical treatment facility to a member of the Armed Forces who is: (1) prescribed such therapy by a physician, (2) serving on active duty, and (3) diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 146 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 2015 Mr. Jones introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury have access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy at military medical treatment facilities.

1. Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members of the Armed Forces (a) HBOT Treatment (1) In general Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1074n the following new section: 1074o. Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members (a) In general The Secretary shall furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy available at a military medical treatment facility to a covered member if such therapy is prescribed by a physician to treat post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. (b) Covered member defined In this section, the term covered member means a member of the armed forces who is— (1) serving on active duty; and (2) diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. . (2) Clerical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1074n the following new item: 1074o. Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.