Point-of-service waiver: This allows Tricare Prime beneficiaries in the West Region to continue seeing providers who may no longer be in the Tricare network after the contract transition.The ...

TriWest was awarded a 9-year, $65 billion contract to manage health care for 4.5 million beneficiaries in Tricare's West Region in December 2022; after a series of bid protests, it became ...

Thousands of beneficiaries in Tricare's West Region are receiving disenrollment letters. (Image by Remains) Thousands of beneficiaries are finding out they are being disenrolled from Tricare ...

Tricare beneficiaries need to be aware of changes taking place in both the East and West regions and may need to take action by the end of the year to avoid being dropped from coverage.

Q. I am on active duty in the Tricare West region. I'm in Tricare Prime, as are my husband and son, who live with me. But my 19-year-old daughter lives in the Tricare South region, in what ...

Inconsistencies between states could have cost U.S. taxpayers and Tricare beneficiaries millions of dollars in excessive payments for some medical procedures and devices, a watchdog report has found.

New Tricare contracts promise better access to a variety of health care services. Shown here, a soldier brings her child in for a flu shot in 2023 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Fred Holly/U.S. Army ...

Allotments for Tricare payments in Tricare West have not been stopped, according to Tricare officials, in response to a report from a retiree in New Mexico whose retirement pay said otherwise.

A Navy veteran and his wife said they were blindsided when Tricare, the military’s health care program, rescinded over $100,000 in medical claims it had approved and paid several years ago.

On Jan. 1, the Defense Health Agency implemented a number of changes to TRICARE, including a region consolidation and health care policy changes mandated by Congress. Several customer service ...

Today, United Healthcare Military & Veterans takes over the Tricare West Region contract to cover the health services of 2.9 million beneficiaries.