TRICARE health care program offers several different plan options that available to enrollees depending on where they live and their beneficiary category. The main beneficiary categories include: Active duty service members, active duty family members, retired service members and their family members, National Guard and Reserve members, survivors and select former spouses.
The TRICARE Prime program offers comprehensive care in areas near military treatment facilities. TRICARE Prime provides all enrollees with a primary care manager where one would receive most routine care from. The TRICARE Prime remote program is similar to TRICARE Prime however it is available to Active Duty Service Members (ADSMs) who live and work 50 miles or a one-hour drive from a military treatment facility. …show more content…
Similarly the TRICARE Retired Reserve plan offers the same coverage for qualified Retired Reserve members and their Family members.
US Family Health Plans are another option for qualified beneficiaries such as active duty family members, activated National Guard, Reserve family members and retirees. This not for profit health care system has 6 different United States location through which the Plan provides care.
Where a beneficiary receives care depends on what health care plan they are enrolled in. An enrollee receives most of their care through the Primary Care Manager (PCM) who is the primary doctor. Depending on the specific plan on can receive care at a military hospital, clinic, network provider, non-network provider or even at an overseas provider. The cost of healthcare does differ depending on what type of provider one chooses. The general steps of enrollment is simply choosing a Primary Care Manager and completing the enrollment application specific to the Tricare health care
The TRICARE Prime program offers comprehensive care in areas near military treatment facilities. TRICARE Prime provides all enrollees with a primary care manager where one would receive most routine care from. The TRICARE Prime remote program is similar to TRICARE Prime however it is available to Active Duty Service Members (ADSMs) who live and work 50 miles or a one-hour drive from a military treatment facility. …show more content…
Similarly the TRICARE Retired Reserve plan offers the same coverage for qualified Retired Reserve members and their Family members.
US Family Health Plans are another option for qualified beneficiaries such as active duty family members, activated National Guard, Reserve family members and retirees. This not for profit health care system has 6 different United States location through which the Plan provides care.
Where a beneficiary receives care depends on what health care plan they are enrolled in. An enrollee receives most of their care through the Primary Care Manager (PCM) who is the primary doctor. Depending on the specific plan on can receive care at a military hospital, clinic, network provider, non-network provider or even at an overseas provider. The cost of healthcare does differ depending on what type of provider one chooses. The general steps of enrollment is simply choosing a Primary Care Manager and completing the enrollment application specific to the Tricare health care