TRICARE, Your Military Health Plan

In This Section:

• Cancer Clinical Trials
• Questions to ask Your Doctor
• Costs
• Chiropractic Care
• Designated Locations
• Combat-Related Special Compensation Travel Benefit
• Before Traveling for Specialty Care
• Requesting Reimbursement
• Computer and Electronic Accomodations Program (CAP)
• Continued Health Care Benefit Program (CHCBP)
• Purchasing CHCBP Coverage
• Getting Care Through the CHCBP
• Filing CHCBP Claims
• Extended Care Health Option (ECHO)
• Who May Qualify
• Benefits
• Costs and Coverage Limits
• ECHO Home Health Care
• Autism Services Demonstration
• Foreign Force Member Health Care Option
• Line of Duty/Notice of Eligibility
• Pre-activation Benefit for National Guard and Reserve
• Medical Benefits
• Dental Benefits
• Transitional Assistance Management Program (TAMP)
• TRICARE Prime Options
• TRICARE Standard Options
• Dental Options
• Transitional Care for Service Related Conditions
• TRICARE Philippine Demonstration
• Philippine Demonstration Designated Areas
• Getting Care under the Demonstration
• Submitting a Waiver Request
• Health Care Costs under the Demonstration
• Filing Health Care Claims under the Demonstration
• TRICARE Plus
• Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Overseas
• Offices

Transitional Assistance Management Program

The Transitional Assistance Management Program (TAMP) provides 180 days of transitional health care benefits to help certain uniformed services members and their families transition to civilian life.

Eligibility
You and your eligible family members may be covered for health benefits under TAMP if you, the sponsor, are:

• Involuntarily separating from active duty under honorable conditions
• A National Guard or Reserve member separating from a period of active duty that was more than 30 consecutive days in support of a contingency operation
• Separating from active duty following involuntary retention (stop-loss) in support of a contingency operation
• Separating from active duty following a voluntary agreement to stay on active duty for less than one year in support of a contingency operation
• Receiving a sole survivorship discharge
• Separating from regular active duty service and agree to become a member of the Selected Reserve of a Reserve Component. The Service member must become a Selected Reservist the day immediately following release from regular active duty service to qualify.

However, service members should check with their Service personnel departments to see if they qualify because TAMP eligibility is determined by the Services and documented in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System.

You are not eligible for TAMP while on terminal leave. During terminal leave, you continue to receive active duty benefits and your family members remain covered under TRICARE Prime, TRICARE Prime Remote, or TRICARE Standard and Extra.

If you have a service-connected injury, illness, or disease incurred while on active duty, contact your unit or Service branch for eligibility determination or authorizations for follow-up medical or dental care.

For those who qualify, the 180-day TAMP period begins upon the sponsor's separation.  During TAMP, sponsors and family members are eligible to use one of the following health plan options:

• TRICARE Prime (enrollment required)
• TRICARE Standard and Extra
• US Family Health Plan (in designated US Family Health Plan locations; enrollment required)
• TRICARE Prime Overseas (enrollment required)
• TRICARE Standard Overseas 

There are no enrollment fees for TAMP coverage.

Last Modified:August 20, 2012