Clarity on Care Options Act
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jan 13, 2026
What it does
The Clarity on Care Options Act would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to create and maintain a publicly available directory of health care providers who accept assignments under the CHAMPVA program, which provides medical benefits to certain veterans' family members. The bill mandates that entities managing VA health care networks annually survey their providers about CHAMPVA assignment acceptance and report the results to the Secretary, who will use this data to build the directory and submit annual reports to Congress detailing provider participation rates and geographic gaps in coverage. The first directory must be published within 180 days of the bill’s enactment, with initial…
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