According to Tricare officials, payments with the current West Region contractor, Health Net Federal Services, will end Dec. 31, and TriWest won't charge the recurring payment method before Jan.1.

That's because Jan. 1, 2018 ushers in some other big changes for them as well. As of Jan. 1, the programs we know as Tricare Standard and Tricare Extra will instead be combined as Tricare Select.

Military reserve members across the Tricare West Region mistakenly were told they must pay monthly premiums of more than $600 to $1,500 to retain their health benefits in 2025.

TRICARE Regional Office (TRO) North and TRO South recently merged to form TRO East on July 1, 2016. TRO West will continue to the western United States. The move was made in advance of the pending ...

Thousands of beneficiaries are finding out they are being disenrolled from Tricare health care coverage in the West Region because they didn’t set up recurring payments by an April 30 deadline ...

A new generation of Tricare contracts is designed to improve care for the 9.6 million Tricare beneficiaries under their purview. The judge’s ruling has not yet been made public.

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 ...

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 Defense Health Agency has upheld its decision to select TriWest Health Alliance as the new managed care services provider in the western U.S. region of the U.S. military’s Tricare program ...