To ensure that persons who enroll in the managed health care program of the Department of Defense known as TRICARE Prime retain coverage under the program in any TRICARE region.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that persons enrolled in TRICARE Prime (a Department of Defense managed health care option) are permitted to transfer their enrollment to another region of the TRICARE program whenever the beneficiary resides or travels in the other region.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 2104 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2104

To ensure that persons who enroll in the managed health care program of 
the Department of Defense known as TRICARE Prime retain coverage under 
                   the program in any TRICARE region.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that persons who enroll in the managed health care program of 
the Department of Defense known as TRICARE Prime retain coverage under 
                   the program in any TRICARE region.

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

SECTION 1. PORTABILITY AND RECIPROCITY OF TRICARE PRIME ENROLLMENT.

    (a) In General.--In carrying out the TRICARE program, the Secretary 
of Defense shall ensure that persons who enroll in the managed care 
option of the TRICARE program, known as TRICARE Prime, in one region of 
the TRICARE program are entitled to transfer their enrollment (without 
penalty or additional cost) to another region of the TRICARE program 
whenever the beneficiary resides or travels in the other region.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``TRICARE 
program'' means the managed health care program that is established by 
the Department of Defense under the authority of chapter 55 of title 
10, United States Code, principally section 1097 of such title, and 
includes the competitive selection of contractors to financially 
underwrite the delivery of health care services under the Civilian 
Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services.
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