Pub. L. 100-463, tit. VIII, sec. 8019

Sec. 8019. None of the funds contained in this Act available for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services under the provisions for section 1079(a) of title 10, United States Code, shall be available for reimbursement of any physician or other authorized individual provider of medical care in excess of the lower of: (a) the eightieth percentile of the customary charges made for similar services in the same locality where the medical care was furnished, as determined for physicians in accordance with section 1079(h) of title 10, United States Code; or (b) the allowable amounts in effect during fiscal year 1988 increased to the extent justified by economic changes as reflected in appropriate economic index data similar to that used pursuant to title XVIII of the Social Security Act.