Walk-In Contraceptive Services FAQs

A resource within a military hospital or clinic where you can come during set hours to get comprehensive contraceptive care in a single visit.

This is a place where you can discuss your reproductive thoughts, goals, and contraception needs with a medical provider. Together, you’ll decide on the option that meets your reproductive needs.

This service is designed to be a single appointment, reducing the need for referrals and multiple appointments.

Walk-in contraceptive services improve access to contraceptive care and counseling, which is an essential part of beneficiaries’ health care. Reproductive health decisions, including family building and menstrual regulation, are important parts of overall health, wellness, and quality of life.

No. Check your military hospital or clinic’s website for hours and days of operation.

No. Check your military hospital or clinic’s website for hours and days of operation.

Walk-in contraceptive services are staffed with healthcare personnel that may include:

• Physicians
• Certified Nurse-Midwives
• Nurse practitioners
• Physician assistants

These professionals are trained and educated in the full range of contraceptive methods, to include appropriate credentialing for long-acting reversible contraceptive placement.

All active duty service members can use walk-in contraceptive services.

If space is available, eligible beneficiaries who can get pregnant (for example, women, transgender males, non-binary individuals) can also use these services.

Yes, if space is available. Check your military hospital or clinic’s website for hours and days of operation.

Walk-in contraceptive services include:

• Pregnancy screening
• Contraception counseling
• Access to a full range of contraceptive methods for pregnancy prevention or menstrual suppression, including:
  • Short-acting reversible contraceptives (for example, pill, patch, ring)
  • Hormonal and non-hormonal long-acting reversible contraceptives (for example, subdermal contraceptive implants, intrauterine devices)
  • Emergency contraception (for example, oral levonorgestrel, Plan B, ulipristal acetate [Ella], and IUDs)
• Education on menstrual suppression, which may assist active duty service members before deploying
• Education on barrier contraception (for example, condoms, diaphragms, and vaginal caps)
• Education on natural family planning
• Access to testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections

You can get your prescriptions through a military pharmacy, a TRICARE retail network pharmacy, or TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery.

TRICARE doesn’t pay for condoms, gels, foams, and creams. You’ll need to buy these items.

You can send a secure message to the provider you saw at the walk-in location. The provider may make a recommendation for a follow-up visit. You can also make a primary care or same-day appointment.

If you have an urgent issue or concern, go to the nearest emergency room or urgent care facility.

No. You can get contraceptive care in primary care, family medicine, adolescent pediatrics, and women’s health clinics. You may need a referral for some of the specialty clinics, and you may have to wait for an available appointment.

Before or by the end of January 2023. Check your military hospital or clinic’s website for information on their walk-in contraceptive services.

Walk-in appointments are based on availability. Visit your military hospital or clinic’s website for walk-in contraceptive services hours of operation.

If there’s no available time on the day you arrive, you have the option of coming back for the next available walk-in appointment.

Check your military hospital or clinic’s website to find your specific walk-in contraceptive services location.

Check your military hospital or clinic’s website to find hours of operation for walk-in contraceptive services.