VETERANS get the SHAFTŠAGAIN --- TRICARE for Life (TFL) Pharmacy Pilot Starts March 15

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HEALTH CARE NEWS TRICARE for Life (TFL) Pharmacy Pilot Starts March 15   Beginning tomorrow, March 15, TRICARE beneficiaries who are Medicare eligible (using TRICARE for Life (TFL)) must refill select maintenance drugs using either TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery or a military pharmacy.   TFL beneficiaries living in the U.S. will be provided up to two courtesy fills of select maintenance medications before switching to home deliveries.  After that, if TFL beneficiaries don’t use either Home Delivery or a military pharmacy, they will be responsible for 100 percent of the cost of their medications. The Pharmacy Pilot is required under the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act and initiated to avert steeply higher TRICARE fees pursued by the Administration in last year’s budget request.  Beneficiaries may opt out of the program after one year of receiving their medications through Home Delivery.  For general information about the pilot, including waivers call Express Scripts (ESI) at 1-877-363-1303. NAUS recommends you also check your address at the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) to ensure it’s up to date.  More Info on TRICARE Proposals Last week we reported on DoD budget proposals to combine all TRICARE plans into one. This week we have some new charts that hopefully make the proposals easier to understand. However, NAUS still opposes these changes and will continue to fight to ensure they are not adopted.