# 119-hr-9864: Reducing Military Health Care Wait Times Act

119-hr-9864, Reducing Military Health Care Wait Times Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-13).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-9864
- Congress: 119
- Title: Reducing Military Health Care Wait Times Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-07-22
- Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-13

## Summary

**Publish TRICARE appointment and referral performance data online.** This bill would require the Department of Defense to post specific wait-time and referral-timeliness metrics on a DoD website and include them in the annual TRICARE Program Evaluation Report to increase transparency and oversight. - Families and beneficiaries would see the average number of days between booking an appointment and the appointment date and the percentage of referrals made within one business day. This gives patients clear, comparable wait-time information. - Military medical treatment facilities would have core performance metrics published, including the measures adopted under section 728 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. That makes facility-level timeliness visible. - Policymakers and oversight bodies would get consistent, statutory data in the annual TRICARE report to monitor access and referral timeliness across the military health system.

## Provisions PRIA read

- More wait-time data for TRICARE: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require the Department of Defense to post appointment and referral data on a public website. The information would cover military medical treatment facilities and TRICARE appointments. You would see the average number of days between booking and the appointment date. You…

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- 119-hr-9070: OPEN Act
- 119-hr-5782: Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-9864 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9864)

## Related
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- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-10061: Wildfire Response and Readiness Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10061)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-9070: OPEN Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9070)
- [119-hr-5782: Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5782)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9864 (as of 2026-08-13).