TRICARE beneficiaries should make sure they have their Social Security number committed to memory. It won’t be found on new Department of Defense ID cards.

Q. Why doesn't Tricare have insurance cards?It would be far simpler than showing a military ID card to hospitals and providers, many of whom have no idea what Tricare is.

Nearly 13K Tricare users enrolled in the USFHP in the northeast U.S. were mailed ID cards without beneficiary names.

Retired Marine Paul King called the transition a "fiasco," citing problems with TriWest's website and the inability to get through to a customer service representative.

Once that's squared away, how you access your Tricare benefits will depend on which Tricare plan you intend to use. Your husband, as an active-duty Marine, must use Tricare Prime, the military's ...

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.

TRICARE beneficiaries should make sure they have their Social Security number (SSN) committed to memory. It won't be found on new Department of Defense (DoD) ID cards.

What are the options? Tricare offers two core health care options: Tricare Prime and Tricare Select. All active duty members are required to enroll in Tricare Prime; they pay nothing out of pocket.

TRICARE beneficiaries in the West Region now have until February 28 to set up their payment with the new contractor, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, according to a press release.

More than 4,000 Tricare Prime beneficiaries in the former North region must make a one-time payment to cover their January enrollment fees thanks to mistakes with their allotments during the ...

8/7/2013 - FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The Defense Department will reduce the number of TRICARE Prime service areas in the United States beginning Oct. 1, affecting about 171,000 retirees and their ...

Q. Why doesn't Tricare have insurance cards?It would be far simpler than showing a military ID card to hospitals and providers, many of whom have no idea what Tricare is.