DoD: ~$23.5B for managed-care support of the military health program TRICARE — a contract with Health Net (USAspending)
The DoD's Defense Health Agency (DHA) awarded about $23.5B ($23,493,318,778, cumulative over years) for managed-care support of TRICARE, the health program for service members, families and retirees. Recipient: Health Net Federal Services. A large military "healthcare" contract — defense is not only weapons.
Contract key facts
- RecipientHEALTH NET FEDERAL SERVICES, LLC
- Contract value$23,482,808,066 (≈$23.48B)
- BranchDefense-wide
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDefense Health Agency
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2016-08-01 〜 2026-05-01
- Contract ID (PIID)HT940216C0002
The amount cited in the write-up ($23,493,318,778) is the figure at the time of writing. After later modifications the record now shows $23,482,808,066 (the details above are current).
Contract scope (original)
IGF::OT::IGF MANAGED CARE SUPPORT SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE TRICARE PROGRAM
Key points
- The Defense Health Agency funded managed-care support for the military health program TRICARE
- Value ~$23.5B (multi-year cumulative), period of performance August 2016–May 2026
- Defense is not only weapons — military healthcare is a vast spending area
- Private firms support regional TRICARE operations (networks, benefits administration)
- Recipient: Health Net Federal Services, LLC
- Nine of the records this site holds as of 2026-09-01 were awarded by the Defense Health Agency for military health.
1TRICARE managed care support services
TRICARE is the DoD health program providing care to active and retired service members and their families. Alongside government-run hospitals, private firms provide "managed care support" — building regional provider networks and administering benefits. This contract is one such role, with Health Net supporting regional TRICARE operations (the specific region is beyond the scope).
2The Defense Health Agency as the buyer
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) was established to consolidate the medical functions each military service had run separately and to manage the Department of Defense health system as one. Regional managed care support for TRICARE is contracted out by DHA to private firms, and this award is one of them. The record states the program name and little more; the region covered and the specific scope of work are not recorded.
3Military health care as a large spending area
4What the Defense Health Agency has contracted
Among the records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, nine were awarded by the Defense Health Agency for military health. Sorted by amount, large managed-care support contracts gather at the top.
Figures are in hundreds of millions of dollars. The Defense Health Agency was established to consolidate the medical functions the Army, Navy and Air Force each held and to manage the Department's health system as one. TRICARE's regional managed-care support is run through that organisation's contracts with private firms.
The source summary here reaches only the programme name, recording neither the region nor the scope of work.
Why it matters
A concrete example that defense spending includes the vast domain of military healthcare (TRICARE), not just weapons. Useful for understanding the structure of the defense budget and the scale of publicly-and-privately delivered military medicine.
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：HT940216C0002