Your TriCare premium may be the least of your worries: Finding a good doc willing to accept or keep you, or getting post-1975 meds for much longer will be the kicker.
Lots of my patients are TriCare at the moment, but I will likely start limiting the ones I accept: Piss-poor reimbursement for difficult, time-consuming cases; totally unresponsive, uncooperative and at times antagonistic Navy hospital doctors and lab and pharmacy obstructing my care; selective formularies specializing in primitive medicines from days gone by. Just not worth it for me on any level in the short time I’ve got left before retiring early.
I agree. Tri-Care pays out very Low rates. Worse than Medicare or Medicaid. My little hospital will not accept it. That tells you something cause they about accept anything. And it is a BIGGGG hassle. Patients go to the VA hospital then show up in our ER when sick and it is very time consuming. Have to get permission to admit before doing so or will NOT get paid. Sometimes the VA accepts the patient but patient has to wait hours for the VA to transport them. But, it has improved a little since the 1970’s but not much.