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Nov. 5, 2024

Your Comprehensive TRICARE Open Season Checklist: Prepare for Nov. 11

TRICARE Open Season is Nov. 11–Dec. 10, 2024. TRICARE Open Season lets you change your healthcare plan for next year. Changes you make during this time start on Jan. 1, 2025. Starting Jan. 1, 2025, new T-5 regional contracts will take effect in the U.S.

TRICARE Open Season 2024

TRICARE Open Season is Nov. 11–Dec. 10, 2024. TRICARE Open Season lets you change your healthcare plan for next year. Changes you make during this time start on Jan. 1, 2025. Starting Jan. 1, 2025, new T-5 regional contracts will take effect in the U.S.

The Defense Health Agency’s Virtual Education Center is an online educational platform with more than 50,000 resources covering 60 medical topics. The Virtual Education Center puts the power in your hands to research health topics before you talk to your provider

Visit our new Virtual Education Center!

The Defense Health Agency’s Virtual Education Center is an online educational platform with more than 50,000 resources covering 60 medical topics. The Virtual Education Center puts the power in your hands to research health topics before you talk to your provider.

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Virtual Mental Health Care

Telemynd is available in all TRICARE West Region states.

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Virtual Urgent Care

Telehealth Options TRICARE West Region beneficiaries have options for remote care, including expanded telehealth partner choices. Urgent Care Doctor on Demand Leo (formerly TeamHealth VirtualCare)

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Centering Pregnancy

Centering Pregnancy offers prenatal care in group sessions with other expecting moms due around the same time. Led by a midwife and nurse, these 2-hour sessions cover health checkups, baby development discussions, and individual consultations with the provider. It's a comprehensive and supportive way to experience prenatal care. How to make an appointment: The women’s health clinic is a referral only clinic. Please see your provider for a referral.

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Beneath the Flag

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TRICARE News and Updates

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Your Comprehensive TRICARE Open Season Checklist: Prepare for Nov. 11

TRICARE Open Season is right around the corner. This year, it runs from Nov. 11 to Dec. 10. Follow this detailed checklist to ensure you’re fully prepared.

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TRICARE Dental Program Premiums Decrease Effective Nov. 1

If you’re enrolled in the TRICARE Dental Program, your TDP monthly premiums will decrease for coverage effective Nov. 1. These new rates will remain in effect until Feb. 28, 2025.

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Get Ready for TRICARE Open Season and 2025 Region Changes at Nov. 14 Webinar

Are you ready for TRICARE Open Season and the upcoming changes to TRICARE in 2025? Mark your calendar for a TRICARE webinar, “Get Ready for TRICARE Open Season and 2025 Region Changes,” on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2–3 p.m. ET on Microsoft Teams Live.

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Q&A: What To Know as TRICARE Open Season Begins Nov. 11

TRICARE Open Season begins Monday, Nov. 11—that’s just a few weeks away. If you’re a TRICARE beneficiary, this is the time when you can enroll in a health plan or change health plans for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2025. You can make these changes through Tuesday, Dec. 10.

MEDDAC-AK News and Updates

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Surgical techs vital to successful surgeries

It’s a common scene in movies and television – a surgeon stands over a patient focused on the surgery being performed, sticks out a gloved hand and without looking up asks for scissors, forceps, or suction. Across from the surgeon an unknown medical assistant, picks up the instrument being called for and efficiently places it in the surgeon’s outreached hand.

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Mother's Meals make for memorable first dinner

Bassett Army Community Hospital Nutrition Care Division is aiming to make the first meal, as a family, special for patients who have given birth at the hospital. With the delivery of Mother’s Meals to three patients April 4, three months of planning and research brought the idea to life.

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Prenatal care centered on you

Participants in Bassett Army Community Hospital's first Centering Pregnancy group pose for a picture during a reunion in January. Centering Pregnancy, a program introduced at Bassett ACH in 2021, brings together a small group of eight to 10 women for their prenatal care. The women meet monthly for a two-hour group appointment that then allows time for each of them to meet individually with the provider

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Medical surge nurse received Ruth Gardiner Award

Capt. Laura Hartford, a medical-surgical nurse assigned to the multi-service unit at Bassett Army Community Hospital, received the Ruth Gardiner Award for Medical Department Activity – Alaska for her nursing and leadership abilities

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DOD Safe Helpline

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DOD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office

DOD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office

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