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.

Tricare beneficiaries in certain ZIP codes will switch to — or stay in — a different Tricare region than the rest of their state come the new year, according to the Defense Health Agency. Six ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Humana Military’s current South Region TRICARE contract runs through March 31, 2011. Humana Military was first selected in 1995 as the contractor for TRICARE Regions 3 (Southeast) and 4 (GulfSouth).