Military Health System Nurse Advice line<\/a> online or by phone at 1-800-TRICARE (874-2273). A nurse will assess whether they can get a virtual appointment that day or the following. <\/p>\n\u201cThis is part of the Defense Health Agency\u2019s effort to improve health care access,\u201d said Army Lt. Col. Ryan Shubat, chief of the Defense Health Agency\u2019s primary care and mental health health care optimization, in the announcement. <\/p>\n
The service is offered in the United States for eligible beneficiaries aged 12 and older, but not overseas or in U.S. territories.<\/p>\n
Providers can address common urgent care issues, officials said, such as sinus congestion and infections; coughs; allergies; sore or hoarse throat; rashes; acne; muscle and joint pain; and headaches. <\/p>\n
The nurse will ask about a patient\u2019s symptoms, and decide whether the symptoms can be treated virtually. If it works for the patient, the nurse will set up the virtual appointment with a health care provider. Appointments are available from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Providers can write prescriptions and send them directly to the patient\u2019s pharmacy.<\/p>\n
All virtual urgent care providers meet high standards for patient care, officials said. Each provider has credentials and privileges at a Defense Health Agency military hospital or clinic. <\/p>\n
The visit is recorded in the patient\u2019s electronic health record.<\/p>\n
Karen has covered military families, quality of life and consumer issues for Military Times for more than 30 years, and is co-author of a chapter on media coverage of military families in the book “A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families.” She previously worked for newspapers in Guam, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla., and Athens, Ga. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some members of the military community now have an expanded virtual option for urgent care. Tricare Prime beneficiaries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1096,4426,26711,29908,4427,29909,97,252,253,109651,29910,217388,139362,24670,217387],"class_list":{"0":"post-467560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-benefits","9":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","10":"tag-circulated-army-times","11":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","12":"tag-circulated-military-times","13":"tag-circulated-navy-times","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-care","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-karen-jowers","18":"tag-military-times","19":"tag-tricare-nurse-advice-line","20":"tag-tricare-prime","21":"tag-urgent-care","22":"tag-virtual-health-care"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}