If you log on to www.mytricare.com, you will find a site with lots of information and a very helpful service. You can check the status of all your records with them and all your claims for the last 6 months .

To use the feature you must register but that is easy, but a bit unusual. The registration is the same as for many other sites but as an extra security precaution they will take the information you provide and tell you that you will receive in the mail, a notice with a special number needed - on a one time basis - to complete the registration. (This is an extra privacy precaution.) In my case, the letter arrived in 6 days, I logged on again, entered the number and now can check my personal information when ever I wish.

An example of the usefulness of your personal account: Some have had trouble with claims TRICARE’s because their records indicated a MEDICARE Supplemental policy even though they did not have one. The first thing I checked was my records regarding this issue and my records were correct.