Tricare, Health Care for Uniformed Active Duty and Retirees of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and NOAA, Guide for Patients and Providers (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM provides a fantastic collection of official Federal government and Department of Defense documents and publications about Tricare, the health care program for the military. There are reproductions of hundreds of documents and handbooks providing complete information on the TRICARE program. TRICARE is the health care program for active duty and retirees of the uniformed services, their families, and survivors. TRICARE is available to eligible beneficiaries from any of the seven uniformed services Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, the U.S. Public Health Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. All eligible beneficiaries must be enrolled in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). TRICARE Eligibility TRICARE s primary objectives are to optimize the delivery of health care services in the military s direct care system for all Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries and attain the highest level of patient satisfaction through the delivery of a world-class health care benefit. TRICARE brings together the health care resources of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard and supplements them with networks of civilian health care professionals to provide access to high quality health care services while maintaining the capability to support military operations. TRICARE is available worldwide and managed regionally in six separate TRICARE regions TRICARE North, TRICARE South, TRICARE West, TRICARE Europe, TRICARE Pacific, and TRICARE Latin America/Canada jointly by the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) and TRICARE Regional Offices. TMA has partnered with civilian Managed Care Support Contractors (MCSCs) in the North, South, and West Regions to assist TRICARE Regional Directors and military treatment facility (MTF) commanders in operating an integrated health care delivery system.