Active duty families, retirees and families should evaluate their personal situation and needs when choosing Tricare Prime or Tricare Select for their 2019 health care needs. (Jacob Sippel/Navy ...

Tricare Prime offers fewer out-of-pocket costs than Tricare Select, but less freedom of choice for providers. If you do not live in a prime service area, additional Prime options for active duty ...

There is no annual deductible for Tricare Prime. Tricare Select: Active duty family members in Group A, grades E-4 and below, pay $50 per individual and $100 per family (no change).

For example, active duty families in Tricare Select whose service member is E4 and below and entered the military on or after ...

Family members are eligible if they live with an enrolled service member in a qualifying location, or they may use Tricare Select. Tricare Prime Overseas/Prime Remote Overseas: Tricare Prime ...

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 ...

Most of these 171,400 beneficiaries will need to shift health coverage from Prime to TRICARE Standard, the military’s fee-for-service health insurance option.

Most TRICARE supplement insurance plans fall into one of three offerings: Inpatient and Outpatient TRICARE Select Supplement, Inpatient-Only TRICARE Select Supplement, or TRICARE Prime Supplement.

If you’re in Tricare Select or Tricare Prime, and you want to stay in that plan, you don’t need to re-enroll. But if you’re a working-age retiree in Tricare Select, you need to take action.

Active-duty family members using Tricare Prime or Tricare Select won’t pay an annual enrollment fee, but they may have to pay out-of-pocket for co-pays or cost shares when getting health care ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (May 20, 2015) -- When a Tricare Prime patient is referred to a specialist more than 100 miles away from the Primary Care manager's office, sometimes travel expenses are ...

More than 171,000 military retirees and family members booted from Tricare Prime on Oct. 1 when the Defense Department cut coverage areas for its managed health program could get their old ...