FY24 Spending Bill Continues AACOM-Promoted Language to Urge OMT for Veterans
Published March 20, 2024
By AACOM Government Relations
Advocacy Appropriations Federal Policy Military Medicine OME Advocate Veterans Affairs
Congress has again recognized the importance of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) and other therapies for treating veteran pain. The Joint Explanatory Statement (JES) to the funding bill signed into law by President Biden (Public Law 118-42), on March 9, 2024, says:
“The Committee notes the directive language in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying Public Law 117–38 requiring the Department to track the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment to treat back and other pain. The Committee continues to encourage VA to expand the use of alternative treatments to pain management…”
First appearing in a June Senate report (page 35) at AACOM’s urging, we are pleased that this important language was again included in the FY24 spending bill signed by the President last week.