Provider Performance Ratings

We want to help you make better choices about your healthcare. Performance ratings highlight providers who meet specific, high standards; these are quality and cost-efficiency. You can check a provider’s ratings using the TRICARE East find care tool. The ratings pull information together to help you decide about your healthcare and service locations.

What Are Provider Performance Ratings?

We show ratings next to some providers to show the quality and efficiency of the care they offer. If a provider lacks these ratings, it means they didn't meet the criteria for evaluation.

We rate providers based on their specialty. We also compare them to others in the same specialty, within the same state. Some providers may not have ratings because:

  • We don't rate all specialties.
  • Providers don't meet minimum requirements.

What’s a Clinical Quality Rating?

The clinical quality rating comes from our evaluation of providers; this rating includes preventive care. It also includes  to help you find providers that provide quality service in specific healthcare areas.

Evaluated  Include:

  • Advanced practice midwife
  • Allergy and immunology
  • Behavioral therapist
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Emergency medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Family medicine
  • General practice
  • Internal medicine
  • Mental health nurse practitioner
  • Nurse practitioner
  • Obstetrics and gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Physician assistant
  • Psychiatry and neurology
  • Pulmonary disease

Clinical quality ratings:

  • Highest: Four circles filled in blue
  • Lowest: Four circles with 3 clear circles and one filled blue circle
  • Not enough information: We lack sufficient data to rate the provider.

What Does Cost-Efficiency Show?

This rating shows how well providers manage costs for specific episodes of care. 

What are the Evaluated Specialties?

  • Advanced practice midwife
  • Allergy and immunology
  • Anesthesiology
  • Counselor
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency medicine
  • Family medicine
  • General practice
  • Internal medicine
  • Marriage and family therapist
  • Midwife
  • Neurological surgery
  • Nurse practitioner
  • Obstetrics and gynecology
  • Occupational therapist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Optometrist
  • Orthopedic surgery
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pediatrics
  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation
  • Physical therapist
  • Physician assistant
  • Podiatrist
  • Psychiatry and neurology
  • Psychologist
  • Social worker
  • Speech-language pathologist
  • Surgery
  • Urology

What are the cost-efficiency ratings?

  • Highest rating: Four circles filled in blue
  • Lowest rating: Four circles with 3 clear circles and one filled blue circle
  • Not enough information to rate

What’s the Provider Readiness Designation?

It highlights mental health providers who understand military culture and evidence-based treatments. This group includes:

  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatric nurse specialists
  • Clinical social workers
  • Marriage
  • Family therapists

It also includes mental health and pastoral counselors supervised by a physician; this doesn't apply to the TRICARE Overseas Program.

To earn this label, providers must complete four courses:

  1. Military culture: Core competencies for healthcare professionals
  2. Cognitive processing therapy for PTSD in veterans and military personnel
  3. Prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD in veterans and military personnel
  4. Depression in service members and veterans

Provider Performance Ratings FAQs

Last Updated 7/28/2026