To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the National Mail Order Pharmacy Program of the Department of Defense to include covered beneficiaries under the military health care system who are also entitled to Medicare.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that any program to make prescription pharmaceuticals available by mail to covered beneficiaries under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) does not exclude covered beneficiaries who are also entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 1773 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1773

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the National Mail 
Order Pharmacy Program of the Department of Defense to include covered 
   beneficiaries under the military health care system who are also 
                         entitled to Medicare.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 3, 1997

 Mrs. Thurman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the National Mail 
Order Pharmacy Program of the Department of Defense to include covered 
   beneficiaries under the military health care system who are also 
                         entitled to Medicare.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF MEDICARE-ELIGIBLE COVERED BENEFICIARIES IN 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATIONAL MAIL ORDER PHARMACY 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1086 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Notwithstanding subsection (d)(1), the Secretary of Defense 
shall ensure that any program to make prescription pharmaceuticals 
available by mail to covered beneficiaries does not exclude covered 
beneficiaries who are entitled to hospital insurance benefits under 
part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395c et 
seq.). Such covered beneficiaries shall be eligible to receive 
pharmaceuticals available under the mail order program on the same 
terms and conditions as other covered beneficiaries included in the 
program.''.
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