Insurer UnitedHealthcare – headquartered in Minnesota with major operations in Connecticut – received a contract to provide insurance for nearly 2.9 million active and retired military service members.
The Government Accountability Office on Monday affirmed the U.S. Department of Defense’s award of UnitedHealthcare’s TriCare Managed Support contract for the western region of the country.
With the award, UnitedHealthcare and the Defense Department will transition beneficiaries to the UnitedHealth Military & Veterans Services by April. The contract included military service members and their families in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, portions of Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
