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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-569
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PROPER AND REIMBURSED CARE FOR NATIVE VETERANS
ACT
NOVEMBER 16, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 6237]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6237) to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
to clarify the requirement of the Department of Veterans Affairs
and the Department of Defense to reimburse the Indian Health
Service for certain health care services, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 6237 is to amend the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act to clarify the requirement of the Department of
Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to reimburse the
Indian Health Service for certain health care services.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Indian Health Service (IHS) system delivers health care
through direct services provided in IHS, tribal, and urban health
facilities to approximately 2.6 million American Indians and Alaska
Natives (AI/AN). However, IHS and tribal facilities are not always
able to directly provide all the necessary health care services. In
order to bridge this gap, the Purchased/Referred Care (PRC) pro-
gram was created, which authorizes the purchase of services from
a network of private providers when care is not available at IHS
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