TRICARE Offers Nonfinancial Incentives to Push Patients to Urgent Care

TRICARE Offers Nonfinancial Incentives to Push Patients to Urgent Care

Due to its oversight by the federal government, TRICARE is challenged with limitations that don’t apply to most insurers—one being that they’re not able to offer some of the economic incentives commonly used to push patients to lower-cost care settings. At the same time, the military insurer is held to the same (or higher) standard for keeping costs under control. One strategy its administrators have come up with is a familiar one: Get patients to …

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