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TRICARE Authorizes Temporary Prescription Refill Waivers for Six Counties in Iowa due to Storm Damage
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in six counties in Iowa may receive emergency prescription refills now through April 29, 2024, due to storm damage.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Despite the administrative costs and inefficiencies of segregation—and facing a war on multiple fronts—the armed services did not move to integrate the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who enlisted for wartime service.
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Under the amended policy, active duty service members with a qualifying illness or injury may now access this extended benefit regardless of their marital status, and they may now use donor gametes (sperm, egg, or both) and embryos, when procured at their own expense.
The annual Military Health System Excellence Awards were presented to leaders from across the MHS in a ceremony at the 2024 annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals, held in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 15.
U.S. Navy Lt. Thomas McGlynn, a medical entomologist with the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence in Jacksonville, Florida, traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in support of Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay Preventive Medicine, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and U.S. Army Public Health Command East, to provide mission-critical entomological training and to search for a newly introduced mosquito species.
The most recent TRICARE pharmacy contract, known as TRICARE Pharmacy 5th Generation (TPharm5), started on Jan. 1, 2023. Since then, you may have experienced some enhancements to how you get your prescription drugs. In 2024, you can continue to expect improved access to pharmacy benefit services through the TRICARE Pharmacy Program.
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched new clinical trials to evaluate emerging technologies for cancer screening. This effort is in collaboration with the Uniformed Services University through its Murtha Cancer Center Research Program.
Patient safety is the No. 1 mission when it comes to health care in the Military Health System.
Everything happens for a reason, in the opinion of U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Ha Eun Ryoo, 90th Operational Readiness Medical Squadron public health flight commander. Which is why she believes it was no accident that she was pulling through the gate at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, at the same moment a child stopped breathing, requiring CPR to save their life.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Shawnee County, Kansas, may receive emergency prescription refills now through April 4, 2024, due to the wildfire.
When you meet U.S. Navy Capt. Carlos Williams, director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, you’ll likely notice that he embodies the Navy’s core values of initiative, accountability, integrity and toughness.
Physicians from Walter Reed and the National Capital Consortium played a role in outlining the accomplishments of the Defense Health Agency for military stakeholders at last weekend’s 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Feb. 23-26 in Washington, D.C.
Research has consistently shown the most effective approach in the treatment of trauma is actually talk therapy.
Womack’s Clinical Nurse Transition Program has achieved accreditation by the American Nurses Credentialing Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs, becoming the second military treatment facility to receive this distinction.
Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Health Promotion and Wellness team were at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor Liberty Center to actively promote the Great American Spit Out, February 22, 2024.
Brooke Army Medical Center held a National Donor Day observance on Feb. 14, 2024, features compelling stories of donors and recipients.
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