The Senate and House Armed Services Committees’ inputs to the fiscal 2007 authorization act contain provisions to encourage users of the Tricare Mail Order Pharmacy (TMOP) to choose the TMOP over the retail system. The Senate would eliminate copays for generic and brand-name drugs in the TMOP’s formulary and would authorize the Defense Department to impose copay increases at the retail pharmacies. (DoD has proposed hiking the retail copays to $5 for generic drugs and $15 for brand-name medications, effective Oct. 1, 2006.) The House would eliminate copays for generic and brand-name drugs in the TMOP and raise copays at retail stores from the current $3 for generics and $9 for brand-name drugs to $5 and $15 respectively. Copays buy a 30-day supply of drugs at retail stores and a 90-day supply at the TMOP.