---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1095e"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1095e"
heading: "TRICARE program: beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinators"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1095e"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 55 — Medical and Dental Care"
---

# §1095e. TRICARE program: beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinators

- (a) **Establishment of Positions.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall require in regulations that—
  - (1) each lead agent under the [TRICARE program](/usc/10/1072.md?p=7)—
    - (A) designate a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to serve full-time as a beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator for beneficiaries under the [TRICARE program](/usc/10/1072.md?p=7);
    - (B) designate for each of the [TRICARE program](/usc/10/1072.md?p=7) regions at least one [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) (other than a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) designated under [subparagraph (A)](#a-1-A)) to serve full-time as a beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator solely for members of the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) and their [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) who are beneficiaries under the [TRICARE program](/usc/10/1072.md?p=7); and
    - (C) provide for toll-free telephone communication between such beneficiaries and the beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator; and
  - (2) the commander of each [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) medical treatment [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) under this chapter designate a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to serve, as a primary or collateral duty, as beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator for beneficiaries under the [TRICARE program](/usc/10/1072.md?p=7) served at that [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
- (b) **Duties.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall prescribe the duties of the position of beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator in the regulations required by [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VII, § 715(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 690; amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title VII, § 707, Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1529.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 108–136 added subpar. (B) and redesignated former subpar. (B) as (C).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Deadline for Initial Designations

Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VII, § 715(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 690, directed that each beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinator required under the regulations described in subsec. (a) of this section be designated not later than Jan. 15, 2000.