Humana wins Defense Department TRICARE East Region Contract

Humana Military has been awarded the next managed care support contract for the TRICARE East Region by the Defense Health Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. TRICARE is the military health care program that provides benefits to military service members, retirees and their families. Under the terms of the award, Humana Military’s service area would cover approximately 4.6 million beneficiaries in a region consisting of 24 states and Washington, D.C. The length of the contract is one base year with eight annual option periods, which, if all options are exercised, would result in a total contract length of nine years. This is the longest duration of a TRICARE contract since the program’s inception in 1995.