[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1273 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1273

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 8, 1997

  Mr. Graham introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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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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