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[CITE: 10USC1095e]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 55--MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE
 
Sec. 1095e. TRICARE program: beneficiary counseling and 
        assistance coordinators
        
    (a) Establishment of Positions.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
require in regulations that--
        (1) each lead agent under the TRICARE program--
            (A) designate a person to serve full-time as a beneficiary 
        counseling and assistance coordinator for beneficiaries under 
        the TRICARE program; and
            (B) provide for toll-free telephone communication between 
        such beneficiaries and the beneficiary counseling and assistance 
        coordinator; and

        (2) the commander of each military medical treatment facility 
    under this chapter designate a person to serve, as a primary or 
    collateral duty, as beneficiary counseling and assistance 
    coordinator for beneficiaries under the TRICARE program served at 
    that facility.

    (b) Duties.--The Secretary shall prescribe the duties of the 
position of beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator in the 
regulations required by subsection (a).

(Added Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title VII, Sec. 715(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 
113 Stat. 690.)


                    Deadline for Initial Designations

    Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title VII, Sec. 715(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 
Stat. 690, provided that: ``Each beneficiary counseling and assistance 
coordinator required under the regulations described in section 1095e(a) 
of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall be 
designated not later than January 15, 2000.''
