HR 3142 · 104th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

Uniformed Services Medicare Subvention Demonstration Project Act

Introduced 1996-03-21· Sponsored by Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]· House

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Latest: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on National Security. H. Rept. 104-837, Part I.(1996-09-25)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Uniformed Services Medicare Subvention Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services (HHS) to jointly establish a demonstration project (project) to provide the Department of Defense (DOD) with reimbursement, under provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, for health services provided through DOD to certain Medicare-eligible covered military beneficiaries. Requires the project to be conducted in one or more regions in which the TRICARE program (a DOD managed health care program) has been implemented. Allows such project to be conducted for up to two years. Requires such Secretaries to jointly submit to the Congress a first annual report and a final report containing specified information concerning project participants and such project's effects on military medical care access, readiness, and training. Directs the HHS Secretary to make monthly payments to DOD from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (HHS trust funds) representing appropriate reimbursement amounts. Provides for the determination of such amounts. Directs such Secretaries to jointly: (…

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Cosponsors (20)

10 Democrats9 Republicans1 Independent