Lose Your Tricare Select Coverage? Here s How to Get It Back
In this June 19, 2012 file photo, Dr. Bruce Stowell examines a patient at his office in Grants Pass, Ore. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
17 Feb 2021
You may have heard that some military retirees now have to pay an annual enrollment fee for Tricare Select health insurance coverage. But what can you do if you neglected to make that payment and saw your Tricare coverage stop because of it?
Tricare has released instructions on how to reinstate health insurance coverage, but retirees must make any necessary payments by June 30 or risk losing coverage for the remainder of the year. They also must make payments retroactive to the beginning of the year to reinstate their lapsed insurance coverage.
New in 2021: Are you a retiree who will lose Tricare Select coverage Jan. 1? Here’s what to do. December 29, 2020 More than 850,000 retirees and their family members who were enrolled in Tricare Select must now pay enrollment fees. (Image by Stock) Are you a military retiree who will lose Tricare Select coverage? You may not realize it yet and you should take action to reinstate your coverage. In 2021, for the first time, more than 850,000 retirees and family members enrolled in Tricare Select, must pay enrollment fees in order to continue their coverage. If you haven’t responded to the Defense Department’s clarion call to contact your Tricare regional contractor to set up a payment process, you lost coverage as of Jan. 1, and you’ll soon find your health care claims are denied.
Elijah Packer, a senior at College of Charleston, gets a COVID-19 test at a S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control pop-up testing site on campus on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. After a months-long search, Dr. Edward Simmer was chosen to lead DHEC and its 3,500 employees. File/Lauren Petracca/Staff
By Lauren Petracca lpetracca@postandcourier.com
Dr. Edward Simmer. File/Provided
A career military medical officer was chosen Tuesday to lead South Carolina s public health agency, filling a months-long vacancy amid the biggest health crisis in a century.Â
The agency s board members voted unanimously to put Dr. Edward Simmer in charge of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control and its 3,500 employees, saying his experience and leadership qualities checked off all their boxes.