Fort Hood Tricare center to close

[unhappycamper]

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Fort Hood Tricare center to close
Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:30 am
Rose L Thayer | Herald staff writer

FORT HOOD — Tricare users will no longer be able to discuss their insurance coverage in person beginning April 1.

The 189 U.S.-based Tricare Service Centers will end administrative walk-in services on that date, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. This includes the Fort Hood center, 36029 Santa Fe Ave., just outside the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.

Overseas service centers are not affected.

“The change will not — let me repeat that — will not affect any Tricare medical benefit or health care service,” said Col. Steve Warren, Pentagon spokesman. “What it will do is allow the department to save $250 million over the next five years, allowing Tricare to invest in more important services.”

[RGinNJ]

1. I've been on Tricare Prime for over 14 years and never used a TriCare Center.

What do they do?