The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- TRICARE program (9.6 million beneficiaries; network and non-network providers)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 10 U.S.C. 1073
- Issued
- 2020-05-12 May 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-12
- End
- Through the end of the President's national emergency (Proclamation 9994) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- May 12, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- TRICARE providers
- managed care support contractors
- beneficiaries
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth substituted for in-person visits
- CB physician, behavioral-health and dental practices serving TRICARE patients
- OF billing rules
- Collection
- Defense installations and the National Guard AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD
Operative words
This interim final rule is effective on May 12, 2020 through the end of the President's national emergency... temporarily waiving some licensure requirements... copayments and cost-shares for telehealth services. The changes in this rule will be effective for the period of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Enforcement
Binding regulation, 32 C.F.R. 199.4(g)(52) and related provisions temporarily modified
Notes
Preamble recites that providers were directed 'to restrict or close their operations'.