In the summer of 2023, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced an extension of a 2013 pilot program allowing the DoD to provide military members and their families with certain healthcare testing that fell outside FDA regulatory procedures. TRICARE has since made its own announcement, adding coverage for some testing previously offered in the pilot program.
UPDATE 8/29/2023: TRICARE now covers several preconception and prenatal carrier screenings including some mentioned below. These are tests previously offered through the Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) demonstration program. These screenings are now part of the basic TRICARE benefit. In 2013, the Defense Health Agency introduced a pilot program to allow the DoD to provide military… Read more »
Update: Some companies have returned to TRICARE in the wake of the original story below. In 2025, Kroger Pharmacies rejoined the TRICARE Pharmacy Program network, bringing back more than two thousand network pharmacies in the TRICARE system across 35 states. The re-expanded network comes after a conflict between Kroger and TRICARE. In late 2022, the… Read more »
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TRICARE is a healthcare program for military members and their families. This health coverage is offered to qualifying military members on active duty, in the Guard and Reserve, veterans, and military retirees. TRICARE is also offered to surviving spouses and dependents, and even “certain former spouses” according to TRICARE.mil. TRICARE is offered stateside, overseas, and at remote assignments. Your basic healthcare plan may depend greatly on your geographic location. Learn more.
Many who retire from active duty military service are a decade or more away from qualifying for Medicare, or other age-based military benefits and services. Your choices for healthcare will be affected by this, and your location (stateside or overseas) is another factor to consider when planning your health care coverage. For the purposes of… Read more »