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The Defense Health Agency has exercised the first one-year option period on a 10-year contract with six companies to provide comprehensive medical support services to veterans, active duty military personnel, and their families through the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan. .
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the vendor will provide medical administrative support, enrollment, provider network management and customer service to eligible beneficiaries under managed care plans.
In September 2023, DHA awarded six companies fixed-price contracts with a base period of one year and an option period of nine years.
The first option year begins October 1 and runs through the end of September 2025.
DHA’s Managed Care Contracting Division, located in Aurora, Colorado, will utilize Medicare-eligible retiree health care funds and fiscal 2025 operations and maintenance funds to finance the contract.
The respective values of the award winners and the first one-year option period are as follows:
Brighton Marine – $160.5 million CHRISTUS Health – $150 million Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation – $511.7 million Martins Point Healthcare – $431.7 million PACMED Clinic – $183.40 $1 million St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center – $135.4 million
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