Some to See TRICARE Prime Restored- Week of January 27, 2014 The Fiscal 2014 Defense Authorizations Act contains a provision (Sec. 711) that authorizes the Defense Health Agency to allow beneficiaries who lost TRICARE Prime coverage after September 30, 2013, when their network disappeared, a new chance to enroll in Prime, the militarys managed care health benefit. TRICARE had viewed their previous networks as too costly to maintain so far from military bases, and therefore forced 171,000 beneficiaries to begin to use TRICARE Standard, the militarys fee-for-service option, instead. Congress, however, stepped in to offer some relief at least for those beneficiaries who live within 100 miles of an MTF. They will be given a one-time opportunity to rejoin a Prime network and stay covered as long as they remain in the zip code where they re-enroll. Read more at the Military
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:33:36 +0000
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