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TRICARE
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TriWest to stop challenge to DoD’s TRICARE contract
Phoenix-based TriWest Healthcare Alliance will end its challenge to the Defense Department’s award of the TRICARE West Region contract to UnitedHealth. The decision comes weeks after the GAO dismissed TwiWest’s protest.
July 13, 2012 -
TRICARE Prime fees to increase Oct. 1
Starting Oct. 1, fees for members enrolled before Oct. 1, 2011, will go up to $269 a year, from $230. Family fees will go up to $538 per year, from $460.
July 10, 2012 -
GAO dismisses protest over huge TRICARE contract
The Government Accountability Office has turned back a protest over a multibillion dollar contract to administer part of the military’s TRICARE health insurance system, the losing bidder said Monday. The Comptroller General’s decision was not publicly released as of Monday afternoon, but TriWest officials said they had been notified of the rejection.
July 02, 2012 -
DoD lectures Congress on budget ‘rules of the game’
Defense Deputy Secretary Ashton Carter said for every dollar lawmakers add to the military’s budget or for every program they continue that the Pentagon wants to cancel, it requires cuts elsewhere. He also called sequestration irrational and said DoD is not planning for it.
May 31, 2012 -
Senators cancel reductions to Air National Guard, cut DoD civilians
Senate panel rejects Air Force’s proposed decreases to National Guard aircraft and personnel, orders cutbacks in DoD civilian and contractor personnel and imposes contractor salary caps.
May 25, 2012 -
House committee rejects TRICARE hikes
The Defense Department had proposed having patients pay up to 14 percent of their health care costs by 2017, compared with 10 percent now.
May 15, 2012 -
Defense bill lets feds in national security jobs rotate between agencies
As part of the annual Defense authorization bill, House lawmakers will take up a provision designed to let federal employees gain experience and share expertise while working temporarily in other agencies.
May 07, 2012 -
Some National Guard members to pay dental premiums directly
Changes to the TRICARE Dental Program will mean some National Guard and Reserve members will have to pay their premiums the old-fashioned way.
May 02, 2012 -
House panel declines to approve hike in DoD’s health insurance fees
House military personnel subcommittee asserts retirees have already paid for their health care via their military service, omits DoD proposal to hike TRICARE fees.
April 27, 2012 -
Senators concerned over TRICARE fee increases
The Pentagon is telling lawmakers military retirees’ share of health care costs is going to have to increase if it’s going to meet the budget targets Congress and the President handed over with last year’s budget control act.
March 29, 2012
