10 U.S.C. § 1079
Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: plans
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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To assure that medical care is available for dependents, as described in subparagraphs (A), (D), and (I) of section 1072(2) of this title, of members of the uniformed services who are on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, the Secretary of Defense, after consulting with the other administering Secretaries, shall contract, under the authority of this section, for medical care for those persons under such insurance, medical service, or health plans as he considers appropriate. The types of health care authorized under this section shall be the same as those provided under section 1076 of this title, except as follows:
With respect to dental care—
Consistent with such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe regarding the content of health promotion and disease prevention visits, the schedule and method of cervical cancer screenings and breast cancer screenings, the schedule and method of colon and prostate cancer screenings, and the types and schedule of immunizations—
Surgery which improves physical appearance but is not expected to significantly restore functions (including mammary augmentation, face lifts, and sex gender changes) may not be provided, except that—
Electronic cardio-respiratory home monitoring equipment (apnea monitors) for home use may be provided if a physician prescribes and supervises the use of the monitor for an infant—
Preconception and prenatal carrier screening tests shall be provided to eligible covered beneficiaries, with a limit per beneficiary of one test per condition per lifetime, for the following conditions:
Plans covered by subsection (a) shall include provisions for payment by the patient of the following amounts:
In this subsection:
Extended benefits for eligible dependents under subsection (d) may include comprehensive health care services (including services necessary to maintain, or minimize or prevent deterioration of, function of the patient) and case management services with respect to the qualifying condition of such a dependent, and include, to the extent such benefits are not provided under provisions of this chapter other than under this section, the following:
Respite care under paragraph (1)(D) shall be provided subject to the following conditions:
Service and modification of durable equipment and assistive technology devices under such paragraph may not be provided—
Members shall be required to share in the cost of any benefits provided to their dependents under subsection (d) as follows:
In the case of extended benefits provided under subparagraph (C), (E), (F), or (G) of subsection (e)(1) to a dependent of a member of the uniformed services—
In addition to any continuation of eligibility for benefits under paragraph (1), when a member dies while on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, the member’s dependents who are receiving benefits under a plan covered by subsection (a) shall continue to be eligible for benefits under TRICARE Prime during the three-year period beginning on the date of the member’s death, except that, in the case of such a dependent of the deceased who is described by subparagraph (D) or (I) of section 1072(2) of this title, the period of continued eligibility shall be the longer of the following periods beginning on such date:
In the case of such a dependent who, at 21 years of age, is enrolled in a full-time course of study in a secondary school or in a full-time course of study in an institution of higher education approved by the administering Secretary and was, at the time of the member’s death, in fact dependent on the member for over one-half of such dependent’s support, the period ending on the earlier of the following dates:
The regulations shall include a restriction that prohibits an individual health care professional (or other noninstitutional health care provider) from billing a beneficiary for services for more than the amount that is equal to—
A plan covered by this section may include provision of liver transplants (including the cost of acquisition and transportation of the donated liver) in accordance with this subsection. Such a liver transplant may be provided if—
This subsection applies with respect to a dependent referred to in subsection (a) who—
The provision of health care services for an eating disorder under subsection (a)(18) may include the following services:
A dependent provided health care services for an eating disorder under subsection (a)(18) shall be provided such services without regard to—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1979House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, to authorize dependents of members of the uniformed services serving on active duty to use CHAMPUS inpatient cost-sharing rates for certain surgery performed on an outpatient basis.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Officer Personnel Management Act Technical Corrections ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1982House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
- Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991House: 396–4Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993House: 304–100Senate: no recorded tally
- To amend title 10, United States Code, with respect to applicability of qualification requirements for certain acquisition positions in the Department of Defense.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998
- Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002
- Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003House: 359–58Senate: no recorded tally
- Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005House: 359–14Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006House: 374–41Senate: no recorded tally
- John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007House: 398–23Senate: no recorded tally
- Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
- Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
- John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022House: 363–70Senate: no recorded tally
- Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025House: 281–140Senate: no recorded tally