A spat between Walgreens and U.S. Department of Defense’s Tricare pharmacy benefits program could prohibit nearly 6 million enrollees from obtaining medications from the company’s pharmacies next year.

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under military insurance plans.

UnitedHealth has filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department over its awarding of the Tricare South Region contract to Humana, who it took the contract from two years ago.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld a decision to award a $3.1 billion Tricare dental plan contract to a different insurer, its first change in 15 years.

A bill that would exempt military retirees from paying the proposed fee increases for Tricare, the military health care program, was introduced in Congress by a North Carolina congressman.

Congressional hearings on a proposal to increase fees on Tricare, a lifetime health benefits program for military retirees, are scheduled for March 16.

Independent insurance agents ranked in the middle of the pack in a survey of customers’ experience, while insurance providers ranked well ahead of health insurance plans in the annual analysis.

Congress has put the health care for older Americans on Medicare at “grave risk” by not stopping the 21% cut in doctor’s payments for serving the federal program, the American Medical Association warned.

A Virginia Beach, Va., cancer doctor was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison for bilking Medicare and TRICARE out of $1.3 million for fraudulent billing of both services.

Saying it is “extremely disappointed” with the decision, Aetna plans to determine why it was disqualified from winning a multi-billion dollar contract to provide health care to members of the military.