Becoming a Caregiver
USFHP
The U.S. Family Health Plan (USFHP) is a TRICARE Prime option available to active duty and retired servicemembers and families who live in certain areas of the country, mainly the northeast (including all or parts of states from northern Virginia to New York and Maine), the Puget Sound area of Washington state, and Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
The USFHP is administered through six major facilities that have a separate, unique TRICARE Prime contract; maintain their own networks of doctors (separate from the regular TRICARE networks); and provide certain enhanced services.
One unique aspect of the program is some enrollees can continue TRICARE Prime coverage under USFHP even after they have attained Medicare eligibility. This continued coverage into Medicare eligibility applies only to people who already were enrolled in the USFHP as of Oct. 1, 2012. People who enrolled after that date must switch to Medicare and TRICARE For Life upon attaining Medicare eligibility.