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The Tricare Management Activity has added a news podcast. The five-minute Tricare Beneficiary Bulletin is designed to bring beneficiaries the latest news in an Internet audio format, officials said, because different people like to get their news in different ways.

Civilian hospitals that provide outpatient services to Tricare beneficiaries got a temporary, 11th-hour reprieve from the Pentagon's proposed plan to have Tricare switch to using Medicare's payment system for those services.

Falls Church, Va.-The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and TRICARE are offering new innovative online tools to help military service members keep their New Year's resolutions to quit tobacco.

TRICARE's Wounded Warrior campaign took the number eight spot and Childhood Obesity the number 24 spot in the list of Top 50 campaigns out of more than 450 entries for 2008 and for the first time, TRICARE was listed in the top 10 among powerhouse organiza

The Obama administration's first defense budget will not seek an increase in Tricare fees, according to a White House statement and a representative of a major military organization.

Bringing ideas and experience aplenty from the West Coast to the nation's capital, TRICARE's new deputy director can quickly and easily sum up TRICARE's importance to America's uniformed service members, retirees and their families. "When you join the military you're promised a comprehensive health care benefit," said Navy Rear Adm. Christine Hunter, the new deputy director of the TRICARE Management Activity. "We want to ensure it is available in all locations and over all the periods of life."

Too bad they took this web address from us - might have been useful.

Our beneficiaries have choices. Through health care transparency we are empowering our beneficiaries to see how the Military Health System truly compares to others. We expect they will be pleasantly surprised by the value we provide them.

Major General Edler Granger Joins SBTR to Discuss TRICARE

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - National Guard and Reserve families are ringing in the New Year with exceptional savings on their healthcare coverage.

TMA is offering a pilot program that delivers post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (PTSD/TBI) education to civilian behavioral health providers in a convenient, online setting. The new civilian provider portal can be accessed at http://www.health.mil/civilianprovidereducation.

Humana Military Healthcare Services, TRICARE contractor for the South Region, is partnering with the University of Louisville to jointly sponsor a new continuing medical education course (CME) for physicians. Civilian providers throughout the country will have access to an online course on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Spouses of service members killed in combat would receive free military health care for life under a bill introduced Monday by Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky. The chief effect of the legislation would be to prevent surviving spouses from being charged the same as retirees for using Tricare health benefit beginning three years after a service member's death, which is the case under current law.

USDR - Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees