Rating program relating to military sexual trauma for providers under Veterans Community Care Program of Department of Veterans Affairs

(a) Program The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish a program under which the Secretary provides a rating of MST Aware for any community care provider that complies with the qualifications under subsection (b). (b) Provider qualifications The Secretary shall provide a community care provider with a rating of MST Aware pursuant to the program established under subsection (a) if the provider— (1) completes core training modules relating to military sexual trauma recommended or required of similar employees of the Department or recommended by the Office of Integrated Veteran Care, or successor office, and other relevant training modules as determined by the Secretary; (2) completes core training modules relating to the treatment of women veterans, such as the training module created under section 5203 of the Deborah Sampson Act of 2020 (title V of Public Law 116–315; 38 U.S.C. 1703 note), as determined by the Secretary; and (3) complies with such other criteria as the Secretary may determine appropriate. (c) Timing The Secretary shall determine how often a community care provider shall be required to complete any training and updates to the training or comply with any criteria required under subsection (b) in order to maintain the MST Aware rating. (d) Plan The Secretary shall establish a plan to promote the program established under subsection (a) and encourage the participation of community care providers in such program by offering incentives, such as continuing medical education credits, to providers that complete core or other relevant training modules. (e) Publication of list (1) In general Each Third Party Administrator shall publish on a publicly available and user-friendly website a list of all community care providers administered by the Third Party Administrator that includes a designation of whether each provider has earned an MST Aware rating pursuant to the program established under subsection (a). (2) Update Each Third Party Administrator shall update the list required under paragraph (1) not less frequently than weekly. (3) Oversight The Secretary shall develop an oversight plan to ensure the lists under this subsection are maintained and accurate. (4) Display of rating The Secretary shall ensure that the Provider Profile Management System, or any successor system, displays the MST Aware rating pursuant to the program established under subsection (a) for any provider that achieves such rating. (5) Third Party Administrator defined In this subsection, the term Third Party Administrator has the meaning given that term in section 1703B of title 38, United States Code. (f) Report Not later than one year after the establishment of the program under subsection (a), and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the program, including— (1) a description of the training modules determined by the Secretary for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b); (2) the number of community care providers who have earned an MST Aware rating during the prior year, disaggregated by community care region, provider type, and specialty; (3) an assessment of the effectiveness of the training modules and other criteria required under subsection (b); and (4) the status of the plans of the Secretary for promotion of the program and provision of incentives under subsection (d). (g) Community care provider defined In this section, the term community care provider means a health care provider specified under section 1703(c) of title 38, United States Code.