Humana Secures $7.3B Option for TRICARE East Region Health Services in 2026

Humana Government Business Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, is awarded $7,342,637,605 to exercise Option Period Two under contract number HT9402-23-C-0001 (inclusive of adjustments to estimated health care costs, as a result of change orders accomplished during the implementation phase of contract performance) for health care and administrative support services in support of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) TRICARE program in the East Region. The contractor will assist DHA in operating an integrated health care delivery system combining the resources of the contractor and the military’s direct medical care system to provide health, medical, and administrative support services to eligible members of the uniformed services, retirees, and their eligible family members. The East Region includes Washington, D.C., and the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The cost-plus-award-fee, firm-fixed-price, and fixed-price type contract was awarded Dec. 22, 2022, with a 12-month base period (transition-in) and eight one-year option periods, plus a transition-out period. The option year period of performance is Jan. 1, 2026, to Dec. 31, 2026.  The place of performance is Louisville, Kentucky. The Defense Health Agency’s Managed Care Contracting Division, Aurora, Colorado, is the contracting activity.