Improving Menopause Care for Veterans Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Improving Menopause Care for Veterans Act requires a GAO review of VA medical services for veterans experiencing perimenopause, genitourinary syndrome of menopause, and menopause. GAO must publish a report within 18 months covering VA menopause care, provider training, diagnosis and treatment protocols, referrals to non-VA providers, interdisciplinary access, outreach and education, veteran feedback, treatment efficacy, complaint-resolution mechanisms, and use of research to improve care. Within six months after GAO makes the report public, the VA Secretary must send House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees a strategic plan to implement GAO recommendations, improve quality of VA menopause care, and improve veterans' access to that care.
Who Benefits and How
Women veterans experiencing menopause benefit because GAO must examine access, quality, training, referrals, outreach, and complaint resolution. VA menopause patients benefit from a required VA strategic plan after the GAO report. VA medical providers benefit from review of training, diagnosis protocols, and treatment guidelines. Congressional veterans committees benefit from a public report and VA implementation plan for oversight.
Who Bears the Burden and How
GAO analysts must conduct the study and publish the report within 18 months. The VA Secretary must submit a strategic plan within six months after the GAO report. VA women's health offices must respond to recommendations on quality, access, referrals, outreach, and interdisciplinary care. VA medical centers may need to adjust provider training and menopause-care protocols.
Key Provisions
- Requires GAO to study VA menopause care for veterans.
- Directs review of provider training, diagnosis protocols, treatment, referrals, outreach, feedback, efficacy, and complaint mechanisms.
- Requires GAO to make the report public within 18 months.
- Directs VA to submit a strategic plan within six months to improve quality and access.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires GAO to study VA menopause care for veterans and requires VA, within six months after the public GAO report, to submit a strategic plan to improve menopause-care quality and access.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Women's Health, Health Care, Oversight
Primary Purpose
Requires GAO to study VA menopause care for veterans and requires VA, within six months after the public GAO report, to submit a strategic plan to improve menopause-care quality and access.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Women veterans experiencing menopause
- VA menopause patients
- VA medical providers
- Congressional veterans committees
Identified Costs
- GAO analysts
- VA Secretary
- VA women's health offices
- VA medical centers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Landsman, …
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Congressional veterans committees, VA Secretary, VA women's health offices
VA menopause patients, Women veterans experiencing menopause
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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