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TRICARE Eligibility Criteria for Tax Year 2008

TRICARE 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.