More Specialty Drugs Cost Less with New Pharmacy's Addition to Tricare Home Delivery Tricare beneficiaries with prescriptions for specialty drugs can now get more of them at the lower copays of Tricare Home...
Tricare Users Can Now Refill Prescriptions Through MHS Genesis Electronic Health Record System The new refill option applies only if a military pharmacy originally filled the prescription. Prescriptions originally filled...
Tricare to Stop Covering Some Vitamin Supplements The supplements that are no longer covered beginning Jan. 1, 2019, are still available over the counter.
MHS Genesis Patient Portal MHS Genesis is the Defense Department's new electronic health records system, designed to provide a single health record for...
Tricare Rate Hikes: Premiums for Young Adults, Retired and Reserve Troops Jump Sharply for 2nd Straight Year Health insurance premiums are going up in 2024 for reservists, young adults and transitioning service members enrolled in...
After Auto Refill Policy Change, Caregivers Can Now Manage Tricare Patients' Online Pharmacy Accounts Tricare has begun letting its users add caregivers to their online Express Scripts pharmacy accounts.
Fewer Tricare Pharmacy Patients Renewed Auto Refills After Confirmation Requirement One in 20 Tricare patients who previously received automatic prescription refills by mail didn't ask for their refills to be...
A Pandemic Prescription Exception Was Set to Expire Thursday, but the DEA Will Extend the Program The allowance was set to expire on May 11, a restriction that would have affected veterans who use telehealth and are...
Cost Hikes Coming for Tricare Pharmacy Users Tricare copays for many drugs will rise again in 2024 as part of a long-term plan to ratchet up patients' share of the costs...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Marines Suffer Most Cases of 2 Life-Threatening Conditions Related to Exercise and Heat, Report Finds The April issue of the Defense Department's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, published last week, was focused entirely on...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill Gets Agreement Between House and Senate The Department of Veterans Affairs caregiver program, the beleaguered electronic health records program, veteran homelessness...