115th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To require the Secretary of Defense to implement processes and procedures to provide expedited evaluation and treatment for prenatal surgery under the TRICARE program.
June 21, 2017
Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Casey, and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services
To require the Secretary of Defense to implement processes and procedures to provide expedited evaluation and treatment for prenatal surgery under the TRICARE program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “TRICARE Expedited Evaluation and Treatment for Prenatal Surgery Act of 2017”.
SEC. 2. Expedited evaluation and treatment for prenatal surgery under the TRICARE program.
(a) In general.—The Secretary of Defense shall implement processes and procedures to ensure that a covered beneficiary under the TRICARE program whose pregnancy is complicated with a fetal anomaly or suspected of being complicated with a fetal anomaly receives, in an expedited manner and at the discretion of the covered beneficiary, evaluation and treatment from a perinatal or pediatric specialist capable of providing surgical management and intervention in utero.
(b) Definitions.—In this section, the terms “covered beneficiary” and “TRICARE program” have the meanings given those terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.