WOUNDED WARRIOR POLICY REVIEW.

SEC. 717. [10 U.S.C. 1071 note] WOUNDED WARRIOR POLICY REVIEW. (a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall review and update policies and procedures relating to the care and management of recovering service members. In conducting such review, the Secretary shall consider best practices— (1) in the care of recovering service members; (2) in the administrative management relating to such care; (3) to carry out applicable provisions of Federal law; and (4) recommended by the Comptroller General of the United States in the report titled “Army Needs to Improve Oversight of Warrior Transition Units”. (b) Scope of Policy.—In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall update policies of the Department of Defense with respect to each of the following: (1) The case management coordination of members of the Armed Forces between the military departments and the military medical treatment facilities administered by the Director of the Defense Health Agency pursuant to section 1073c of title 10, United States Code, including with respect to the coordination of— (A) appointments; (B) rehabilitative services; (C) recuperation in an outpatient status; (D) contract care provided by a private health care provider outside of a military medical treatment facility; (E) the disability evaluation system; and (F) other administrative functions relating to the military department. (2) The transition of a member of the Armed Forces who is retired under chapter 61 of title 10, United States Code, from receiving treatment furnished by the Secretary of Defense to treatment furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. (3) Facility standards related to lodging and accommodations for recovering service members and the family members and non-medical attendants of recovering service members. (c) Report.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and Secretaries of the military departments shall jointly submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the review conducted under subsection (a), including a description of the policies updated pursuant to subsection (b). (d) Definitions.—In this section, the terms “disability evaluation system”, “outpatient status”, and “recovering service members” have the meaning given those terms in section 1602 of the Wounded Warrior Act (title XVI of Public Law 110-181; 10 U.S.C. 1071 note).