Thursday Health.mil News Round-Up: TRICARE Patients Must Attest to Health Care Coverage; Webinar to Highlight the Operation Live Well Initiative; ASIST Gives Sailors a Helping Hand in Suicide Prevention

The following article was recently posted on Health.mil:

TRICARE Patients Must Attest to Health Care Coverage
Jan. 15, 2015

As tax season begins, Defense Department officials want to remind TRICARE beneficiaries of changes in the tax laws, which require all Americans to have health care insurance or potentially pay a tax penalty.

Read more about it here: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/01/15/TRICARE-Patients-Must-Attest-to-Health-Care-Coverage

Webinar to Highlight the Operation Live Well Initiative
Jan. 21, 2015

To help increase awareness about Operation Live Well, an initiative that provides a set of resources which you can use to adopt or maintain a healthy lifestyle, the Military Health System and Military OneSource will co-host a webinar on Wednesday, January 28, 2015, noon to 1:00 p.m. EST.

Read more about it here: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/01/21/Webinar-to-Highlight-the-Operation-Live-Well-Initiative

ASIST: A Helping Hand
Jan. 20, 2015

Twenty-eight Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) completed a two-day Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshop hosted by the command religious ministries department (CRMD), Jan. 13.

Read more about it here: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/01/20/ASIST-A-Helping-Hand