{"id":31440,"date":"2024-01-04T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/01\/04\/new-tricare-benefits-delayed-due-to-continued-contract-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:56:31","slug":"new-tricare-benefits-delayed-due-to-continued-contract-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/fedlife\/health\/2024\/01\/04\/new-tricare-benefits-delayed-due-to-continued-contract-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tricare benefits delayed due to continued contract protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Tricare contracts designed to improve care for the 9.6 million Tricare beneficiaries will be delayed from a planned start date of August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual start date remains up in the air, as a protest involving the West Region\u2019s $65.1 billion contract continues in the United States Court of Federal Claims. A 12-month transition period is needed before the policies begin. Defense officials, however, halted work on the contracts pending the decision of the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/13\/dod-pulls-back-tricare-contract-in-west-region-for-corrective-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Health Agency<\/a> officials have said there will be no disruption to patient care, but the ongoing dispute could delay some of the improvements beneficiaries were expecting. The new contracts, for example, would allow patients to transfer specialty care referrals to a new doctor when they move, even if their new duty station is not in their current Tricare region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New contracts for the Tricare East and West regions have a potential combined value of $136 billion over nine years. Once the dispute is settled, an additional 1.5 million Tricare beneficiaries will be transferred to the West Region from six states in the East Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In court filings, West Health Net Federal Services contends that errors in the Defense Health Agency\u2019s evaluation of proposals resulted in \u201cthe illogical conclusion that TriWest \u2014 an entity that has not performed a Tricare [Managed Care Support] contract in nearly a decade and that has no existing Tricare network \u2014 had equally relevant and more favorable past performance than the successfully performing West Region incumbent who has received glowing performance assessments for years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August, the Government Accountability Office denied a second protest by West Health Net Federal Services and affirmed defense health officials\u2019 selection of the Phoenix-based<a 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