111 HR 241 IH: To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the amounts reimbursed to institutional providers of health care services under the TRICARE program to be the same as amounts reimbursed under Medicare, and to require the Secretary of Defense to contract for health care services with at least one teaching hospital in urban areas.
U.S. House of Representatives
2007-01-04
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1.Requirement for TRICARE
program reimbursement of institutional providers of health care services to be
identical to reimbursement under medicareSection 1079(j)(2)
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking determined to
the extent practicable in accordance with the same reimbursement rules as apply
to payments to
and inserting identical to the amount of payments
that would be paid to
.
2.Requirement for
TRICARE program to contract with at least one teaching hospital in urban areas
for delivery of health careSection 1097(a) of
title 10, United States Code, is amended—
(1)by inserting
(1)
before The Secretary of Defense
;
(2)in the second
sentence, by striking The
and inserting Subject to
paragraph (2), the
;
(3)by
redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C),
and (D), respectively; and
(4)by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
(2)In contracting for the delivery of
health care under this section, the Secretary shall contract with at least one
teaching hospital in each large urban area. In this paragraph—
(A)the term teaching
hospital
means a hospital which has a teaching program approved as
specified in section 1861(b)(6) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395x(b)(6)); and
(B)the term large urban
area
has the meaning given that term in the second sentence of section
1886(d)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395ww(d)(2)(D)).
.