TRICARE For Life Handbook

Organization in the Private Sector and Tricare

TRICARE is modeled on civilian managed-care organizations. It includes two enrollment options. The first option, TRICARE Prime, is a health maintenance organization (HMO). Beneficiaries who do not enroll in Prime are covered by a preferred provider organization (PPO). This option offers MTF care when it is available and two civilian alternatives: TRICARE Extra, for those who elect to use the ci...

TRICARE; removal of the prohibition to use addictive drugs in the maintenance treatment of substance dependence in TRICARE beneficiaries. Final rule.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this final rule to remove the exclusion of drug maintenance programs and allow TRICARE coverage of the substitution of a therapeutic drug, with addictive potential, for a drug of addiction when medically necessary and appropriate as part of a comprehensive treatment plan for an individual with substance use dependence. The current regulation prohibi...

Introducing Value-Based Purchasing into TRICARE Reform.

TRICARE, the health benefits program created for beneficiaries of the U.S. Department of Defense, covers health care provided in military treatment facilities and by civilian providers. Congress is now considering how to update TRICARE, which was first developed in the 1980s drawing on managed care concepts from civilian health plans. This article places TRICARE's current managed care strategy ...

GAO-01-742T Defense Health Care: Lessons Learned from TRICARE Contracts and Implications for the Future

Examination of multiple medication use among TRICARE beneficiaries aged 65 years and older.

BACKGROUND The simultaneous use of multiple prescription medications has been associated with an increased risk of adverse drug events and other drug-related complications, especially in the elderly. OBJECTIVE To quantify the prevalence of use of multiple medications among a sample of Department of Defense (DoD) health care beneficiaries, aged 65 years and older, who used their TRICARE (milit...