Re: Anyone seeing Ponseti doctors with TRICARE?

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Thanks, Jenn. I'll go talk to them today. I talked to the 888 number

today, and now they said that with a referral, it wasn't a problem,

but now I'm questioning their knowledge...My PCM has been great (he

has a 3 year old with lcf and got bad casts in Okinawa for 6 months -

what are the chances?!), so I have called him for the referral,

which I don't think will be a problem. Anyway, thanks for the info.

You have been great!

> >

> > Hello. Dr. Ponseti has expressed an interest in seeing our

> daughter,

> > but right now, it doesn't look like the visits would be covered

> for us

> > by our insurance. He is considered a " non-network provider. " I

> thought

> > that all we needed to do was get a referral from our PCM, but I

> was

> > told by Tri-Care that non-network is only when there are no

other

> > orthopaedic surgeons in the area. I have even tried looking up

> > intrastate Ponseti doctors on the Tricare provider list, but

none

> of

> > them are listed. We have TriCare Prime in Florida... I have

> explained

> > that their providers want to do unnecessary surgery, and that

this

> > would be more cost effective, but so far, it doesn't look good.

> There

> > has to be a way around it! Anyone else had experience with this?

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> >

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