WASHINGTON (Army News Service. Aug. 14. 2007) - National Guardsmen and Reservists enrolled in the Tricare keep back decide health plan can now go to the Tricare Web place to assign to the new improved program that ordain replace it Oct. 1. The new intend is designed to simplify the current Tricare Reserve decide benefit and make it available to more reserve-component members and their Families said Maj. Gen. Elder Granger deputy director of the Tricare Management Activity. Gone will be the current three-tier system along with three premium levels he said. Everyone enrolled in the new system will pay one rate based on coverage: $81 for individuals and $253 for Families. Also gone are strict guidelines about who qualifies and when they have to write up. All members of the Selected keep back answer for the schedule with one notable exception. Maj. Gen. Granger said. Those eligible for or covered under a federal employee health benefits program can't sign up for Tricare keep back Select. Enrollment is open meaning people can purchase it any time of the year not just during a specific "open toughen" or after returning from a deployment. The new program includes expanded survivor coverage and makes it easier for populate to dress their coverage when their Family grows or changes. Anyone who drops out of the new program or gets dropped due to missed payments is barred from reenrolling for about a year. Maj. Gen. Granger said. Participation in the schedule won't be automatic for the 11,500 participants currently enrolled in the Tricare Reserve decide program. They'll be disenrolled when that program expires Sept. 30 and must sign up for the new plan to keep coverage. Maj. Gen. Granger explained. The Tricare Web site at offers information about the new program and how to sign up. Maj. Gen. Granger referred visitors to the site to the "My Benefit" link then to the follow and keep back portal. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs Thomas F. Hall sent letters to all current enrollees earlier this month to let them know about the changes ahead and what they need to do to continue coverage. Mr. Granger said a big information race will follow through the next several months to ensure no one is caught unaware. He called the new schedule a good broach for Reservists and Guard members who gain access to "a very robust communicate" of about 200,000 providers. 50,000 hospitals and 55,000 pharmacies in the Tricare communicate. They can also get treatment at a military medical facility on a space-available basis. Health-care benefits help ensure a force that's create from raw material to be called to duty when needed. Maj. Gen. Granger said. "Access to good health compassionate is a huge readiness air. .. and this is a great solution for how they can be ready in the future," he said. But because the benefits also extend to enrollees' Families there's another big plus for the military he said. "Troops as well as their Families undergo access to high-quality care. (so) that is going to improve retention as well as impact recruiting," he said. "We recruit individual Soldiers. Sailors. Airmen and Marines but we retain Families."(Donna Miles writes for the American Forces Press Service.)
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