Talk:TRICARE

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Contents 1 New Proposals 1.1 Applications/Affairs 1.2 Contractors 2 Editing History 2.1 Champus merge 2.2 US Family Health Plan 3 WikiProject class rating 3.1 Dental coverage

[edit] New Proposals

[edit] Applications/Affairs

There could be a HUGE benefit to the public if a section could be added that describes the application and claims processes and other paths that one has to travel through this bureaucracy. What would we call it and how would we define its sub-structure? Or would this be a separate article? Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 09:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Contractors

I didn't actually mean that TMA contracts with the claims processors when I wrote it (although they do for TDEFIC), but I can see how it looks like that now. I'll also think about a clearer way to word that section.CJKreklow 00:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing History

[edit] Champus merge

Champus (or more properly CHAMPUS) is just a former name & earlier implementation of TRICARE. There is really no need for the article to be separate. -- 63.224.137.164 15:54, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I have merged CHAMPUS to this page. As an employee of one of the three regional contractors (won't say which one ;-D) there are some other difficulties here also, F'rinstance, TMA does not contract with claims administrators, that is the task of each of the lead contractors. I will be looking at this page and coming up with some ideas over the next little while and see if I can flesh this out some.UnseemlyWeasel 00:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I tried adding a Web site that is actually sponsored by TRICARE to different articles but it seems all of my links are being considered as spam/ads. So hopfully people will be able to read the link off from this page, US Department of Defense Quit tobacco Web site Quit Tobacco. Make Everyone Proud.

[edit] US Family Health Plan

There is no information here about the US Family Health Plan, a TRICARE Prime option available in certain regions. Their website is usfamilyhealthplan.org. Lebinger 20:18, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing it up, I've added some info. Feel free to add content where you think appropriate, also. On Wikipedia, everybody's an editor. --Pesco 06:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] Dental coverage

I believe that Delta Dental is the only dental insurance contractor for both active duty and retiree dentistry. I added a link but I'm not particularly happy. It could be improved. TMLutas (talk) 22:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)