TRICARE Open Season: How Does This Affect Me?

By Brendan Smith

TRICARE Open Season, which is the period when TRICARE beneficiaries can review options for and make changes to their 2025 health plan, begins November 11, 2024. The last day to make changes to your health plan is December 10, 2024, and the changes will be implemented starting January 1, 2025. TRICARE Open Season applies to beneficiaries enrolled in or eligible for: TRICARE Prime, U.S. Family Health Plan, TRICARE Prime Remote, TRICARE Prime Overseas, TRICARE Prime Remote Overseas, TRICARE Select, or TRICARE Select Overseas.

During TRICARE Open Season, you can choose to remain in your current plan (in which case you would not need to re-enroll), enroll in a plan for the first time, or change your plan (in which case you would confirm your family’s information in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System). However, even outside of the aforementioned programs, beneficiaries living in the TRICARE West Region (which, as of January 1, 2025, will include the following states: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, HI, ID, IL, IA, KS, LA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY) will need to provide payment information to TriWest Healthcare Alliance between now and January 1, 2025. If payment information is not provided to this region’s new contractor, you may be involuntarily disenrolled from TRICARE.

To make changes to your plan during TRICARE Open Season, beneficiaries in the East Region should call Humana Military at (800) 444-5445, beneficiaries in the 2025 West Region should call TriWest at (888) 874-9378, and beneficiaries overseas should update their plans online on milConnect. For more information on TRICARE Open Season and making changes to your TRICARE plan, visit tricare.mil/changes or the TRICARE Newsroom online.