Dental Programs Offered by TRICARE Active duty service members usually receive all dental care from military dental treatment facilities. If enrolled in TRICARE Prime Remote, you are automatically covered by the TriService Remote Dental Program, administered by the Military Medical Support Office (MMSO). More information about active duty dental benefits is available at TRICARE's Web site or in the TRICARE Prime Handbook or the TRICARE Prime Remote Handbook. For all other beneficiaries, TRICARE offers two dental programs—the TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) and the TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (TRDP). Each program is administered by a separate dental contractor and has its own monthly premiums and costshares.
TRICARE Dental Program The TDP is a voluntary dental insurance program available worldwide to eligible active duty family members and to members of the National Guard and Reserve and/or their families. United Concordia Companies, Inc., (United Concordia) currently administers the program. For TDP information, visit www.TRICAREdentalprogram.com or call United Concordia toll free at 1-800-866-8499.
TRICARE Retiree Dental Program The TRDP is a voluntary dental insurance program available to retired service members and their eligible family members living in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Delta Dental Plan of California (Delta Dental) currently administers the program. For TRDP information, visit www.trdp.org or call Delta Dental toll free at 1-888-838-8737.
Extended Care Health Options The TRICARE Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) provides financial assistance to active duty family members who qualify based on specific mental or physical disabilities, and offers an integrated set of services and supplies not available through the basic TRICARE program.
TRICARE ECHO supplements the benefits of the TRICARE program option you currently use—TRICARE Prime (including TPRADFM), TRICARE Standard, or TRICARE Extra.
Qualifying conditions include:
Moderate or severe mental retardation
Serious physical disability
Extraordinary physical or psychological condition of such complexity that the beneficiary is confined to their home.
A diagnosis of a neuromuscular developmental condition or other condition in an infant or toddler that is expected to precede a diagnosis of moderate or severe mental retardation or a serious physical disability.
Multiple disabilities, which may qualify if there are two or more disabilities affecting separate body systems.
For those who qualify, TRICARE ECHO provides benefits not available through the basic TRICARE program. These benefits may include:
Medical and rehabilitative services
Training to use assistive technology devices
Special education
Institutional care when a residential environment is required
Transportation under certain circumstances
Assistive services, such as those from a qualified interpreter or translator
Durable equipment, including adaptation and maintenance
Expanded in-home medical services through TRICARE ECHO Home Health Care
In-home respite care services:
* ECHO Respite care—16 hours per month when receiving other authorized ECHO
benefits.
* TRICARE ECHO Home Health Care Respite care—up to 40 hours per week
(eight hours per day, five days per week) for those who qualify.
