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

Combat-Related Special Compensation Travel Benefit

If you are a retiree and your Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) Board has awarded you Combat-Related Special Compensation, you may be entitled to the CRSC travel benefit. This benefit provides reimbursement for travel-related expenses when you must travel more than 100 miles from your referring provider's location to obtain medically necessary, nonemergency specialty care for a combat-related disability.

To qualify, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• Receive retired, retired retainer or equivalent pay
• Awarded a CRSC determination letter from your service's CRSC Board identifying the combat-related disability or disabilities
• Live in the United States
• Covered under TRICARE Standard and Extra or TRICARE For Life
• Referred by your provider for specialty care that is more than 100 miles from your referring provider to obtain care for the combat-related disability
  

Note: TRICARE Prime enrollees, including those enrolled in the US Family Health Plan, are eligible for the TRICARE Prime Travel Benefit.

Reimbursable Expenses
Only reasonable, actual-cost travel expenses (e.g., lodging, fuel [rather than mileage], meals, parking, tolls) associated with receiving specialty care can be reimbursed. You are expected to use the least costly mode of transportation. Government rates will be used to estimate the reasonable costs for allowable expenses.

Please contact your TRICARE Regional Office (TRO) for more information about reimbursable expenses and authorization requirements.

• TRO-North
  • 1-866-307-9749 or 1-703-588-1867/1869
  • tronorth@tma.osd.mil
• TRO-South
  • 1-800-554-2397 
  • trosouthcs@tros.tma.osd.mil
• TRO-West
  • 1-800-449-6408
  • trow-csrctravel@trow.tma.osd.mil

Non-Medical Attendants
One non-medical attendant (NMA) may also be entitled to reimbursement of travel-related expenses. Your referring provider must verify in writing that an NMA is medically necessary and appropriate to travel with you. The NMA can be a parent, spouse, or other adult family member (age 21 or older) or a legal guardian.

If the NMA is an active duty service member or a U.S. government employee, he or she may be entitled to temporary duty allowances (per diem and mileage) if on travel duty per their organization.

Last Modified:June 1, 2011