"...Tricare acknowledges that the Phillipines system is one of its most dysfunctional and troubled — so much so that the agency decided in September to scrap the program and start over, according to interviews with beneficiaries, a Department of Defense investigation and Tricare’s own assessments.
Most of the current problems are rooted in fraud that began to surface more than a decade ago when 11 beneficiaries and providers were convicted of bilking Tricare and U.S. taxpayers out of $1.2 million..."
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