Lawmaker Announces Five-Year ‘Moratorium’ On OFCCP Evaluations of TRICARE Providers

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is expected to establish a five-year moratorium on its enforcement activities involving medical providers that participate in TRICARE, the Defense Department’s health care program for active and retired military members, Rep. Tim Walberg (R.-Mich.) announced March 13 during a House subcommittee hearing.

“We welcome this development,” Walberg, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, said during a hearing on a bill (H.R. 3633) that would prevent medical providers receiving funding from federal health care programs from being classified as federal contractors subject to the OFCCP’s ...