Posted on 02/27/2016 4:42:36 AM PST by SandRat
As they review the Defense Department’s latest plan to raise TRICARE fees and co-pays, particularly for working-age retirees and their families, key congressional panels are asking what beneficiaries can expect in return.
Faster appointments, more evening clinic hours, more physicians spending more time seeing patients and more base hospitals operating at full capacity were some answers given this week by military healthcare leaders.
Perhaps the most important commitment came from Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, who said he, along with the new director of the Defense Health Agency, Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, and the surgeons general of the Army, Navy and Air Force all recognize the need “to pivot to a full patient-centered, customer-focused delivery system.”
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February 25, 2016 | BPR Wire
When you turn 65 you WILL be forced onto Medicare A and you will have to buy Medicare B and TFL will be your tertiary insurance.
More poor service.
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