Sec. 704. Report requirement for certain contracts under TRICARE program
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Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1097d the following new section (and conforming the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter accordingly): Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense enters into a major military health care contract, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the contract. Each report under subsection
(a)shall include, with respect to the contract for which the report is submitted, a review of the process used in awarding the contract. In this section, the term major military health care contract means a contract the Secretary determines is a managed care support contract for the administration of the TRICARE program (including the administration of medical and dental care services under such program) and is estimated by the Secretary to require an eventual total expenditure of more than $1,000,000,000. . Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall develop specific criteria for the determination of a contract as a major military health care contract pursuant to section 1097e(c) of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), and submit to the congressional defense committees a detailed list of such criteria.