TRICARE Increases Access to O

Service members stationed overseas who need immediate urgent medical care have greater flexibility. TRICARE, the health-care program for service members, their families, and retirees, has authorized its overseas contractor, International SOS, to help service members get urgent care at its civilian facilities. Before the new policy, service members who were within 40 miles or one hour’s drive of a military treatment facility had to use that facility to receive urgent (defined as serious but not necessarily life- or limb-threatening) care. For more information, visit TRICARE’s Web site at http://www.tricare.mil/pressroom/.