TRICARE for Transitional Service Members
Recently the congress granted the eligibility of up to 180 days for availing TRICARE benefits for certain former active-duty officers, Guard members and Reserve officers, as described. Some programs may still seem redundant due to building several new transitional support options in past few years. All the service branch of TRICARE determine the limited transitional eligibility. To know more regarding eligibility options, please contact our transition office or your nearest service representative as well. The military also provides TRICARE Continued Health Care Benefit Programs—considering the available advantages of it in order to avoid the gaps in your TRICARE medical coverage.
Contact Info:
You can call TRICARE Continued Health Care Benefit Program at 800-444-5445, option 4,
You can write to Humana Military Healthcare Services, Inc., P.O. Box 740072, Louisville, KY 40201.
Or visit: www.humanamilitary.com
Continued Health Care Benefits:
After losing the TRICARE eligibility (i.e., if you have separated from the military or anything else), you need to access to a safety network which is administered by the military. Those who are not with any other military healthcare system coverage at all, also eligible for a temporary enrollment in Continued Health Care Benefit Program. Although it is not a part of the TRICARE, Continued Health Care Benefit Program offers similar benefits as well as operates mostly under the same rules. But you have to enroll in this service within 60 days after being separated from the active duty eligibility or you’ll lose your eligibility of getting military healthcare facility. The premium of this coverage is USD $933/quarter for each individual and USD$1,996/quarter for the families.
The Continued Health Care Benefit Program is administrated by Humana Military Healthcare Services, Inc., for more information related to eligibility details, enrollment application form, detailed available benefits chart as well as service costs when enrolled or further, you can directly call them or write your queries to them.
Transitional Assistance Management Program
If you’re service member on active-duty, then the present TRICARE health coverage will continue for you as well as your family members through the deployment and afterward. If you’re currently transitioning or out of the military for the following deployment, please read out the information located on benefits later both on veterans and retiree as well.
If you’re in the Guard or Reserve, then you are eligible for the continued TRICARE benefits program for maximum 180 days or less after returning from the active duty service, under the Dept. of Defense and TAMP. But you need to fulfill any of these requirements stated below:
• Be involuntarily separated from an active duty service under an honorable condition, or
• Be a Guard or Reserve member separating from an active duty service who’s called up for the active-duty period of 30 days or more, or be a member of her / his family ( for details, see the TRICARE Reserve Select section).
• Be separated from an active duty service for stopping loss or following the involuntary retention in the support of contingency operations.
• Be separated from an active duty service for following the voluntary agreement in order to stay on an active duty service for one year or less in the support of contingency operations.
For those members who qualified, the TAMP period of 180-day, it begins upon the separation of active duty's sponsor. While availing TAMP, the sponsors, and their family members will be eligible for enrolling in the TRICARE Prime as well as Overseas TRICARE Prime programs, or just use TRICARE Standard & Extra as well as Overseas TRICARE Standard. For the answers of any specific questions related to this program, you can contact your regional TRICARE contractor.
More Health Care Programs Designed to Assist Troops in Transition
Post-Deployment Health Assessment.
If you just returned recently from deployment, then you need to fill up a Post-Deployment Health Assessment, DD Form 2796 to receive the health assessment services by a health care service provider. But this health assessment will be evaluating your present physical as well as mental health condition and will be focusing on any other health concerns related to deployment.
VA Health Care for Combat Veterans.
For more details on the extended VA healthcare coverage especially for the combat veterans are available in Veterans Healthcare section.
If you had served in the theater of the combat operations as an active duty after Gulf War, or in the combat against the hostile force after 11th November 1998, then you have become discharged under any other circumstances than any dishonorable condition, you are eligible for this program. The National Guard & Reserve members including the active duty officers are eligible for the VA healthcare as well when they’re ordered by the federal declaration who served for a full period and for which they’re ordered or called to an active duty, or have become separated from the active military services under other than any dishonorable condition. The active-duty Reserve members and Guards who’re activated in any combat mission, then become separated from the active duty will receive a Discharge or Release Certificate from Active Duty Authority and DD Form 214, it needs to show as an award of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. For individuals who are seeking services under the authority need to bring their provided DD Form 214, while reporting for VA healthcare facilities.
For the required paperwork to qualify your eligibility for VA health care and medical benefits, scroll to the Veterans Health Care section in the following.
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