The bill, titled the “Stop Copay Overpay Act,” aims to amend U.S. Code Title 10 to limit the copayments charged to TRICARE beneficiaries for outpatient mental and behavioral health services to the same amount as primary care visits. It restricts the Secretary of Defense from increasing...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to make it cheaper for people using TRICARE to visit doctors when they need help with their feelings or minds, making it cost the same as seeing a regular doctor. It also wants to keep the cost of seeing special doctors the same as it was a few years ago, but only for one year, and then check to see how well these changes worked.