NDAA FY06, Sec 711

Attachment 2

Extracted Section 711 of NDAA 2006

H. R. 1815—208

Subtitle B—TRICARE Program

Improvements

SEC. 711. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY SURVEYS ON

TRICARE STANDARD.

Section 723(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for

Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136; 117 Stat. 1532; 10 U.S.C.

1073 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new

paragraph:

‘‘(4) Surveys required by paragraph (1) shall include questions

seeking to determine from health care providers the following:

‘‘(A) Whether the provider is aware of the TRICARE program.

‘‘(B) What percentage of the provider’s current patient

population uses any form of TRICARE.

‘‘(C) Whether the provider accepts patients for whom payment

is made under the Medicare program for health care

services.

‘‘(D) If the provider accepts patients referred to in subparagraph

(C), whether the provider would accept additional such

patients who are not in the provider’s current patient population.’’.

OMB Submission: TRICARE Standard Survey-CP 1