Some Civilian Docs May Still Have No Access to MilFam Health Records Currently, non-active duty patients must hand-carry records to off-base doctors if they wish them to transfer.
Report: Troops Duped in Alleged Tricare Fraud A reported Tricare scheme in which users’ DNA was collected in exchange for gift cards and used to order expensive, unneeded...
Senate Backs 1.6% Troop Pay Raise, BAH Cuts, Health Care Reform The Senate has approved a defense bill that calls for a 1.6 percent military pay raise and reduced housing allowances.
Tricare Dental Contract Swap, Expansion Going Forward A plan to expand dental benefits for active-duty families, National Guard and Reserve members and their families while...
Pilot Program to Steer Tricare Users to Military Hospitals A new pilot program will give some Tricare users who are admitted to a civilian hospital the option to transfer.
No Timeline for Tricare Transgender Coverage DoD officials have no timeline for when military family members and retirees will be able to receive transgender-related care...
In Contract Shift, Tricare Consolidates Coverage Regions The Tricare health care program for families and vets will consolidate its regions from three to two under a pair of...
Change in Tricare Coverage Regions May Take Effect Mid-2017: Pentagon The number of Tricare regions will shrink to two as early as mid-2017 as a new pair of regional management contracts kick in.
Cut Tricare Rather than Military Housing Allowance: Defense Analyst Spending reforms should increase retention by cutting back benefits that serving troops don't highly value, one expert says.
Moving Patients Back to Military Hospitals Top Priority: Official Shifting military family members back into military hospitals and clinics for health care is a top priority, the head of the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
