Medical Billing for Healthcare Services Provided by Department of Defense Military Medical Treatment Facilities to Civilian Non-Beneficiaries

Document 2024-22584 is a Proposed Rule published by the Department of Defense in the Federal Register on October 1, 2024, with an effective date of June 21, 2023. 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. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/01/2024-22584/medical-billing-for-healthcare-services-provided-by-department-of-defense-military-medical-treatment.

No. Document 2024-22584 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.