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SEC. 706. CONTINUATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR TRICARE 
STANDARD COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN MEM-
BERS OF THE SELECTED RESERVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 706(f) of the John War-
ner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2007 (Public Law 109–364; 120 Stat. 2282; 10 U.S.C. 
1076d note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Enrollments’’ and inserting 
‘‘(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), enroll-
ments’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) The enrollment of a member in TRICARE 
Standard that is in effect on the day before health care 
under TRICARE Standard is provided pursuant to the ef-
fective date in subsection (g) shall not be terminated by 
operation of the exclusion of eligibility under subsection 
(a)(2) of such section 1076d, as so amended, for the dura-
tion of the eligibility of the member under TRICARE 
Standard as in effect on October 16, 2006.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2007. 
SEC. 707. EXTENSION OF PILOT PROGRAM FOR HEALTH 
CARE DELIVERY. 
(a) EXTENSION
OF DURATION
OF PILOT PRO-
GRAM.—Section 721(e) of the Ronald W. Reagan National 
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Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public 
Law 108–375; 118 Stat. 1988; 10 U.S.C. 1092 note) is 
amended by striking ‘‘and 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘, 2007, 
2008, 2009, and 2010’’. 
(b) EXTENSION
OF REPORT DEADLINE.—Section 
721(f) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘July 1, 2007’’ 
and inserting ‘‘July 1, 2010’’. 
(c) REVISION
IN SELECTION CRITERIA.—Section 
721(d)(2) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘expected 
to increase over the next five years’’ and inserting ‘‘has 
increased over the five years preceding 2008’’. 
(d) ADDITION TO REQUIREMENTS OF PILOT PRO-
GRAM.—Section 721(b) of such Act is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(3); 
(2) by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’ 
at the end of paragraph (4); and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) collaborate with State and local authorities 
to create an arrangement to share and exchange, be-
tween the Department of Defense and non-military 
health care systems, personal health information and 
data of military personnel and their families.’’. 
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SEC. 708. INCLUSION OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN DEFINI-
TION OF HEALTH CARE AND REPORT ON 
MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES. 
(a) INCLUSION OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN DEFI-
NITION OF HEALTH CARE.—Section 1072 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(10) The term ‘health care’ includes mental 
health care.’’. 
(b) REPORT ON ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE 
SERVICES.—Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives a report on the ade-
quacy of access to mental health services under the 
TRICARE program, including in the geographic areas 
where surveys on the continued viability of TRICARE 
Standard and TRICARE Extra are conducted under sec-
tion 711 of this Act. 
Subtitle B—Studies and Reports 
SEC. 711. SURVEYS ON CONTINUED VIABILITY OF TRICARE 
STANDARD AND TRICARE EXTRA. 
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR SURVEYS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall conduct surveys of health care providers and 
beneficiaries who use TRICARE in the United 
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States to determine, utilizing a reconciliation of the 
responses of providers and beneficiaries to such sur-
veys, each of the following: 
(A) How many health care providers in 
TRICARE Prime service areas selected under 
paragraph (3)(A) are accepting new patients 
under each 
of 
TRICARE 
Standard 
and 
TRICARE Extra. 
(B) How many health care providers in ge-
ographic areas in which TRICARE Prime is not 
offered are accepting patients under each of 
TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra. 
(C) The availability of mental health care 
providers in TRICARE Prime service areas se-
lected under paragraph (3)(C) and in geo-
graphic areas in which TRICARE Prime is not 
offered. 
(2) BENCHMARKS.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish for purposes of the surveys required by para-
graph (1) benchmarks for primary care and specialty 
care providers, including mental health care pro-
viders, to be utilized to determine the adequacy of 
the availability of health care providers to bene-
ficiaries eligible for TRICARE. 
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(3) SCOPE OF SURVEYS.—The Secretary shall 
carry out the surveys required by paragraph (1) as 
follows: 
(A) In the case of the surveys required by 
subparagraph (A) of that paragraph, in at least 
20 TRICARE Prime service areas in the 
United States in each of fiscal years 2008 
through 2011. 
(B) In the case of the surveys required by 
subparagraph (B) of that paragraph, in 20 geo-
graphic areas in which TRICARE Prime is not 
offered and in which significant numbers of 
beneficiaries who are members of the Selected 
Reserve reside. 
(C) In the case of the surveys required by 
subparagraph (C) of that paragraph, in at least 
40 geographic areas. 
(4) PRIORITY
FOR
SURVEYS.—In prioritizing 
the areas which are to be surveyed under paragraph 
(1), the Secretary shall— 
(A) 
consult 
with 
representatives 
of 
TRICARE beneficiaries and health care and 
mental health care providers to identify loca-
tions where TRICARE Standard beneficiaries 
are experiencing significant levels of access-to- 
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care problems under TRICARE Standard or 
TRICARE Extra; 
(B) give a high priority to surveying health 
care and mental health care providers in such 
areas; and 
(C) give a high priority to surveying bene-
ficiaries and providers located in geographic 
areas with high concentrations of members of 
the Selected Reserve. 
(5) INFORMATION FROM PROVIDERS.—The sur-
veys required by paragraph (1) shall include ques-
tions seeking to determine from health care and 
mental health care providers the following: 
(A) Whether the provider is aware of the 
TRICARE program. 
(B) What percentage of the provider’s cur-
rent 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 and mental health care 
services. 
(D) If the provider accepts patients re-
ferred to in subparagraph (C), whether the pro-
vider would accept additional such patients who 
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