TRICARE Eligibility Criteria for Tax Year 2008

Eligibility criteria for tax year 2008
1. A health care provider must be contracted with TRICARE.
2. For the purposes of the TRICARE benefit, eligible health care providers for tax year 2008 have been defined as follows:
- MD or DO (physician)
- NP (nurse practitioner)
- PA (physician assistant)
3. A health care provider must see TRICARE patients in the following numbers during calendar year 2008*:
| Practice site location | Number of TRICARE patients who must be seen |
| Frontier community | More than one |
| Rural community that is not frontier | More than 18 |
| Urban community | More than 75 |
* Number of patients seen and practice site locations are based solely upon data provided by TriWest.





