ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY SURVEYS ON TRICARE STANDARD.

SEC. 711. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY SURVEYS ON TRICARE STANDARD. Section 723(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136; 117 Stat. 1532; 10 U.S.C. 1073 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:“(4) Surveys required by paragraph (1) shall include questions seeking to determine from health care providers the following:“(A) Whether the provider is aware of the TRICARE program.“(B) What percentage of the provider’s current patient population uses any form of TRICARE.“(C) Whether the provider accepts patients for whom payment is made under the medicare program for health care services.“(D) If the provider accepts patients referred to in subparagraph (C), whether the provider would accept additional such patients who are not in the provider’s current patient population.”.