{"id":479,"date":"2015-10-01T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=479"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:25:33","slug":"changes-coming-to-tricare-rx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/changes-coming-to-tricare-rx\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes Coming to TRICARE Rx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting October 1, 2015, a new law requires all TRICARE beneficiaries, except active duty servicemembers, to get select brand name maintenance drugs through either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricare.mil\/homedelivery\/\">TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery\u00a0<\/a>or from a military pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries who keep using a retail pharmacy for these drugs will have to pay the full cost. Maintenance drugs are those you take regularly for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The law does not apply to drugs you take for a short time, like antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries living overseas, or with other prescription drug coverage, are not affected.<\/p>\n<p>You can check with your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricare.mil\/mtf.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local military pharmacy<\/a> to see if they carry your prescription.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this change to TRICARE&#8217;s pharmacy benefit, visit the TRICARE New Rules for Filling Prescriptions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricare.mil\/RxNewRules\">webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on TRICARE, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/benefits\/tricare\">Military.com TRICARE section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting October 1, 2015, a new law requires all TRICARE beneficiaries, except active duty servicemembers, to get select brand name maintenance drugs through either TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery\u00a0or from a military pharmacy. Beneficiaries who keep using a retail pharmacy for these drugs will have to pay the full cost. Maintenance drugs are those you take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/changes-coming-to-tricare-rx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changes Coming to TRICARE Rx<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}