Access the tricare provider handbook to help you navigate tricare with ease, ensuring you deliver the highest quality care, while staying aligned with tricare guidelines. Tricare is the health care program for service members, retirees and their families worldwide Tricare provides comprehensive coverage, health plans, special programs, prescriptions and dental plans. Most tricare health plan costs for military and retiree households will go up between 2% and 3% in 2026, with some steeper increases of over 15% for prescription drugs. Important milconnect update myauth is replacing ds logon for milconnect access Learn more about the myauth transition
Myauth will roll out in phases This began with milconnect and id card office online on may 21 Over time, all dod applications that use ds logon will transition to myauth. Copayment changes for your prescription drugs will go into effect january 1, 2026 Copayments will change at tricare home delivery, which includes the specialty pharmacy accredo, to provide expanded clinical services for patients with complex and chronic health conditions and retail pharmacies There is still a $0 copay for prescriptions filled at military pharmacies.
Tricare is managed by the pentagon's defense health agency.
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