# TRICARE: Termination of the Worldwide TRICARE Transitional Health Care Demonstration Project
**AGENCY:**
Office of the Secretary, DoD.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
Section 736 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (NDAA-02), Pub. L. 107-107, eliminated transitional health care coverage for dependents of certain separating active duty members. On June 12, 2002, a *Federal Register* notice was published that created the Worldwide TRICARE Transitional Health Care Demonstration Project. The Demonstration provided eligibility for TRICARE transitional health care coverage to dependents excluded in the NDAA-02. The Notice stated that the Demonstration was to be in effect for 2 years or until rescinded by another authority.
Section 706 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 03 re-inserted transitional health care coverage for dependents and deemed the provision to have been enacted as part of Section 736 of the NDAA-02 (retroactive to December 28, 2001). Consequently, the Worldwide TRICARE Transitional Health Care Demonstration Project is terminated.
**EFFECTIVE DATE:**
December 28, 2001.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Ann N. Fazzini, Health Care Program Specialist (Reimbursement), TRICARE Management Activity, 16401 E. Centretech Parkway, Aurora, CO 80011-9066, telephone (303) 676-3803.
Dated: April 11, 2003.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.