Reducing Military Health Care Wait Times Act
Sponsored By: Representative Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced
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.
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- 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.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More wait-time data for TRICARE
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 would also see the percent of referrals made within one business day after an individual contacted the facility. The data would include the core performance metrics set under the 2017 defense law. This would make wait times and referral speed more visible but would not change TRICARE eligibility, payment rates, or funding.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
CO • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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