---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1091a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1091a"
heading: "Identification in patient medical records of affiliation of certain non-Department of Defense health care providers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1091a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 55 — Medical and Dental Care"
---

# §1091a. Identification in patient medical records of affiliation of certain non-Department of Defense health care providers

- (a) **Requirement.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that medical [records](/usc/10/801.md?p=14) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense include the organizational affiliation of any independent [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) contractor identified in such medical [records](/usc/10/801.md?p=14).
- (b) **Independent Health Care Contractor Defined.—** In this section, the term “independent [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) contractor” means a [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) provider who meets the following criteria:
  - (1) The [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) provider is a nonpersonal services contractor, or an employee of such a contractor, pursuant to subpart 37.4 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or other applicable regulation.
  - (2) The [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) provider provides [health care](/usc/10/1072.md?p=10) services under this chapter in any [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) medical treatment [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) (as defined in [section 1073c(j) of this title](/usc/10/1073c.md?p=j)) or other location under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, including an operational clinic.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title VII, § 711, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1947; amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VII, § 711(b), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 919.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 119–60 substituted “section 1073c(j)” for “section 1073c(i)”.