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ARMED FORCES NEWS |
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The General Accounting Office has released a report on the Tricare program that recommends that the Defense Department improve its oversight of Tricare Prime. DoD responded that new Tricare managed care contracts beginning next year would fill the blanks. The Military Officers Association of America says that is not enough. MOAA expressed disappointment that the report does not address MOAA's concerns that low reimbursements and administrative hassles are keeping doctors from accepting Tricare patients. MOAA also is concerned that Congress might direct a follow-on study of access to Tricare Standard providers, and "another year will have been wasted and military families will be no better off." The association says that DoD and the Tricare Management Authority must begin to address Tricare Prime and Standard access problems now. See the report at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03928.pdf. |
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