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Medical Billing for Healthcare Services Provided by Department of Defense Military Medical Treatment Facilities to Civilian Non-Beneficiaries
The Defense Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on October 1, 2024. It took effect on June 21, 2023. Comments closed on December 2, 2024.
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What the agency says
As required by the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA-23), this document proposes to reduce financial harm to civilians who are not covered beneficiaries of the Military Health System (MHS), and who receive healthcare services at DoD military medical treatment facilities (MTF). The rulemaking, once finalized, will implement the MHS Modified Payment and Waiver Program (MPWP) through which the DoD will apply a sliding fee scale and/or a catastrophic fee waiver to medical invoices of certain non-beneficiaries and will accept payments from health insurers of non-beneficiaries as full payment except for copays, coinsurance, deductibles, nominal fees and non-covered services.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-22584
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Defense Department
- Published
- October 1, 2024
- Takes effect
- June 21, 2023
- Comments due
- December 2, 2024
- Dates
- This rulemaking, once finalized, will apply to non-beneficiary patient medical care provided on or after June 21, 2023. Comments to this proposed rule are being accepted and must be received by December 2, 2024.
- Docket
- Docket ID: DoD-2022-HA-0054
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0720-AB87
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 32 CFR 220
- Topics
- Claims; Health care; Health insurance; Military personnel
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 12
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