Beneficiaries residing in Tricare’s West Area who missed the Tuesday deadline to arrange recurring funds with the brand new regional contractor, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, have been granted an extension.
Beneficiaries enrolled in Tricare Younger Grownup, Tricare Reserve Choose and Tricare Retired Reserve plans now have till Jan. 15 to arrange recurring funds immediately with TriWest, whereas these enrolled in Tricare Prime or Tricare Choose have till Jan. 30, in line with Tricare’s web site. The requirement applies to those that pay enrollment charges or premiums by bank card, debit card or digital funds switch.
Those that miss the deadline extension can be disenrolled from their well being care plan again to Jan. 1, officers stated.
Beneficiaries who pay by navy allotment don’t must take motion, as these funds can be transferred routinely to TriWest. It additionally doesn’t have an effect on these with Tricare for Life, a Tricare well being plan abroad, or the U.S. Household Well being Plan.
Along with TriWest formally turning into the brand new West Area contractor Wednesday, six states — Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin — and sure ZIP codes in 4 states at the moment are a part of the West Area. Beneficiaries in these areas who pay enrollment charges or premiums by bank card, debit card or digital funds switch should additionally replace their recurring funds with TriWest by the deadline extensions.
There are alternative ways to offer the data to TriWest, together with calling its customer support line at 888-874-9378.
Beneficiaries may go to Tricare.mil/west and arrange recurring funds through the “Self-Service, Safe Beneficiary Portal.” Beneficiaries will want their major electronic mail deal with on file with DEERS to enroll as new customers.
A verification code will then be despatched to the beneficiary’s electronic mail, permitting them to finish the registration and supply all info requested, together with the cost methodology. Beneficiaries have the choice of signing up for month-to-month, quarterly or annual funds earlier than submitting their request.
An alternative choice is to obtain the Computerized Month-to-month Tricare Fee Set Up Request type, full the shape and mail it to the offered deal with.
Karen has lined navy households, high quality of life and client points for Army Instances for greater than 30 years, and is co-author of a chapter on media protection of navy households within the ebook “A Battle Plan for Supporting Army Households.” She beforehand labored for newspapers in Guam, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla., and Athens, Ga.
