117 HR 9380 IH: Financial Relief for Civilians Treated at Military Hospitals Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2022-12-01
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1.This Act may be cited as the Financial Relief for Civilians Treated at Military Hospitals Act
.2.Debt arising from treatment at military medical treatment facilitiesSection 3711 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—(1)in subsection (g)(2)—(A)in subparagraph (A)(v), by striking and
at the end;(B)in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and(C)by adding at the end the following:(C)to any debt or claim described in subsection (j).; and(2)by adding at the end the following:(j)The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department (as defined in section 101 of title 10) may not take an action under subsection (a) to collect a claim arising from covered treatment (as defined in section 1079b(b) of that title) provided at a military medical treatment facility to a civilian who is not a covered beneficiary (as defined in section 1072 of that title)..3.Limitation on fees charged to civilians for emergency medical treatment provided at military medical treatment facilitiesSection 1079b of title 10, United States Code, is amended—(1)by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and(2)by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection (b):(b)Limitation on fees for certain treatment(1)Under the procedures developed under subsection (a), a military medical treatment facility may not charge a civilian who is not a covered beneficiary, or a third-party payer of such civilian, any fee for covered treatment provided to such civilian at such facility.(2)In this subsection:(A)The term covered treatment, with respect to treatment provided to a civilian at a military medical treatment facility, means treatment provided for a medical emergency or in connection with an emergency inpatient admission.(B)The terms emergency inpatient admission and medical emergency have the meanings given those terms in section 199.2 of title 32, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations.(C)The term third-party payer means—(i)an entity described in section 1095(h)(1) of this title;(ii)the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.); or(iii)the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.)..