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Uniformed Services Medicare Subvention Demonstration Project Act

Introduced: March 21, 1996 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 12 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 25, 1996
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on National Security. H. Rept. 104-837, Part I.
Sep 19, 1996
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Sep 12, 1996
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Sep 12, 1996
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 11, 1996
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Apr 8, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Apr 8, 1996
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Mar 29, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Mar 26, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 26, 1996
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2844)
Mar 21, 1996
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Commerce, and National Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 21, 1996
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Uniformed Services Medicare Subvention Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services (HHS) to jointly establish a demonstration 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 to Medicare-eligible covered military beneficiaries who participate in the project and receive such services through the managed care option of the TRICARE program (a DOD managed health care program). Requires the project to be conducted during the three-year period beginning on January 1, 1997, in two or more regions in which the TRICARE program has been implemented. Requires inclusion in the project of a provision for expansion to incorporate health care services provided to such beneficiaries under the fee-for-services options of the TRICARE program if the Secretaries determine that such expansion is feasible and advisable.

Requires the Secretaries to submit to the Congress an interim and final report on project participants and on the 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 representing appropriate reimbursement amounts. Provides for the determination of such amounts.

Directs the Secretaries to: (1) establish minimum and maximum project enrollment levels; and (2) determine baseline costs of such care and coverage. Directs the Secretary of Defense to waive the enrollment fee for individuals enrolled in a TRICARE program participating in the project.

Requires the Comptroller General, for each project year, to submit to the Secretaries and the Congress a report on the extent to which costs under the TRICARE program and the Medicare program have increased as a result of the project. Directs the Secretaries to modify the project at the end of each year to correct for any discrepancy between cost targets and actual spending under the project.

What's happening now September 25, 1996

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on National Security. H. Rept. 104-837, Part I.

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