To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that covered beneficiaries under chapter 55 of such title shall not be required to pay a copayment for health care services received under TRICARE Prime.

Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from requiring a covered beneficiary under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to pay a copayment for health care services received under TRICARE Prime (a Department of Defense managed health care program).

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3565 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3565

    To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that covered 
 beneficiaries under chapter 55 of such title shall not be required to 
 pay a copayment for health care services received under TRICARE Prime.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2000

Mr. Nethercutt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that covered 
 beneficiaries under chapter 55 of such title shall not be required to 
 pay a copayment for health care services received under TRICARE Prime.

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

SECTION. 1. ELIMINATION OF COPAYMENTS UNDER TRICARE PRIME.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended in section 1095d by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c) Termination of Copayments for Covered Beneficiaries.--The 
Secretary may not require a covered beneficiary to pay a copayment for 
health care services received under TRICARE Prime.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1095d. TRICARE program: waiver of certain deductibles and 
              copayments''.
    (2) The item relating to section 1095d in the table of sections at 
the beginning of such chapter is amended to read as follows:

``1095d. TRICARE program: waiver of certain deductibles and 
                            copayments.''.
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