All that are using Tricare pharmacy for their Meds here will be the new fees for the Rx's as a result of the passage of the 2013 Defense Budget:
The House Armed Services Committee rejected the administration’s call to include new and increased Tricare fees in the defense authorization bill the panel passed this week, but the bill does bump up some pharmacy co-pays.
The fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which cleared the committee on May 10, would establish Tricare pharmacy benefits program co-pay rates of $5 for generic medications, $17 for formulary medications and $44 for non-formulary medications obtained through retail pharmacies; and $0 for generic medications, $13 for formulary medications and $43 for non-formulary medications obtained through the TRICARE mail-order program.
The bill also would impose a cap on pharmacy co-pays beginning in 2014. That measure would allow co-pays to increase by no more than the percentage increase of the annual retiree cost-of-living adjustment.
The measure would offset that cap with a five-year pilot program that requires Tricare for Life recipients to obtain refills of maintenance drugs through the Tricare mail-order program.
