Will Tricare Reforms Improve Access, Raise Fees or Both? Reform plans in Congress are moving away from the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission...
Tricare Fee Cuts for Autism Therapy Stir Access Worries The director of the TRICARE Health Plan said she doesn't expect the fee cuts to cause a significant shift of providers for...
Tricare Pharmacy Co-Pays to Increase Feb. 1 A set of prescription drug price increases will hit Tricare users Feb. 1 as fee changes passed by Congress last year take...
Specialty Docs May Draw More Families to Military Hospitals: Officials Military treatment facilities can do a better job of convincing military family members to use them instead of civilian...
Budget Proposal Includes Major Retiree Tricare Fee Hikes The new Defense Department budget proposal for 2017 sent today to Congress drastically increases the cost of healthcare for...
DoD Tricare 'Reforms' Call For Higher Retiree Fees, Co-Pays The TRICARE reform packet, Defense officials maintain, would simplify insurance options, improve access to managed care.
Study: Enlisted Troops Get Less Consistent Care for Depression A new study reports the military health care system needs to improve medication management and ongoing care for enlistees.
Tricare Dental Coverage Slated to Increase in 2017 with New Contractor Military dental benefits will see expansions under a new contract set to go into effect next year.
Surgeons General: Reform Tricare, Not Military Hospitals Military health care reform must strike a balance between maintaining military readiness and fixing an "antiquated" Tricare...
Senators Question Proposal to Cut Tricare Autism Reimbursement Rates Pentagon plans to reduce Tricare rates for autism therapy specialists came under fire this week from two U.S. senators.
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...
