led four of her House colleagues in a bipartisan effort expressing their concerns to Defense Health Agency Director ... regarding reports the agency may be pausing or discontinuing the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries (HCSDB)
Keep the TRICARE beneficiary survey in place to preserve access-to-care and patient-experience monitoring.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Dingell led a bipartisan letter urging DHA to maintain ongoing HCSDB data collection and analysis and avoid gaps in oversight capability.
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OMB lists the HCSDB information collection as Active, approved with change, with expiration date 05/31/2027.
Assessments
Dingell took a concrete same-term oversight action by leading a bipartisan letter urging DHA to maintain the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries and avoid gaps in data collection and analysis. The federal PRA record also shows the HCSDB information collection remained active and approved through 05/31/2027, which supports that the survey framework was still in place. However, the available evidence does not show that DHA accepted Dingell's request, that survey fielding continued without interruption after the reported pause/discontinuation concern, or that Dingell's action caused the preservation outcome. This supports partial credit rather than full delivery.