Tricare Prime is paying!!!!

[Guest guest]

Hey everyone! We got some good news yesterday! After speaking to a

few people and visiting the Tricare website we decided to switch

Lucas over to Standard so his visits to Dr. Ponseti will be paid

for.

My husband went into the local Tricare office and asked to be

switched over. The lady wanted to know why and he explained the

whole story- starting with Lucas' first cast and ending with the

surgery and relapse. Well, she said she wanted him to wait, that she

wanted to check everything out before switching because then he'd be

locked in for a year. Another thing, the hospital commander here

won't let Standard beneficaries be seen on base- only Prime, so we'd

have to find an off base Ped if we did switch. Well, she found the

lady who actually approves/disapproves the referrals and she came

out to talk to my husband. Apparently the PCM who put in the

referral for us, just put it in as a second referral. The lady said

she didn't know the whole story or she wouldn't have denied it.

So...she changed it to say something about how his treatment here

wasn't working and then approved it! We didn't have to switch to

Standard and Tricare is also paying for my husband to travel to Iowa

and reimburseing us for last week! I am so excited! I'm going to

write a nice letter for the lady behind the desk. If it wasn't for

her asking questions and telling us not to change yet, we'd be on

Standard and paying some out of pocket for the next year.

Joyce called today and left me a great message! She was so excited

and her voice was raised saying, " Tricare's paying for all your

visits!!! " She is such a wonderful person!

Just had to share the news. I know it's too late for , but

maybe this will help someone else before they have to switch.

Jenn

[Guest guest]

TRicare Prime is paying for your visits to Iowa? Where do you live now? They

told us that anything outside the region wasn't covered... thaqt it was only

covered iflocal care was unavailable. Gabe has been disenrolled since Sep 04.

volng8r1 wrote: Hey everyone! We got some good news

yesterday! After speaking to a

few people and visiting the Tricare website we decided to switch

Lucas over to Standard so his visits to Dr. Ponseti will be paid

for.

My husband went into the local Tricare office and asked to be

switched over. The lady wanted to know why and he explained the

whole story- starting with Lucas' first cast and ending with the

surgery and relapse. Well, she said she wanted him to wait, that she

wanted to check everything out before switching because then he'd be

locked in for a year. Another thing, the hospital commander here

won't let Standard beneficaries be seen on base- only Prime, so we'd

have to find an off base Ped if we did switch. Well, she found the

lady who actually approves/disapproves the referrals and she came

out to talk to my husband. Apparently the PCM who put in the

referral for us, just put it in as a second referral. The lady said

she didn't know the whole story or she wouldn't have denied it.

So...she changed it to say something about how his treatment here

wasn't working and then approved it! We didn't have to switch to

Standard and Tricare is also paying for my husband to travel to Iowa

and reimburseing us for last week! I am so excited! I'm going to

write a nice letter for the lady behind the desk. If it wasn't for

her asking questions and telling us not to change yet, we'd be on

Standard and paying some out of pocket for the next year.

Joyce called today and left me a great message! She was so excited

and her voice was raised saying, " Tricare's paying for all your

visits!!! " She is such a wonderful person!

Just had to share the news. I know it's too late for , but

maybe this will help someone else before they have to switch.

Jenn

[Guest guest]

We are in South Dakota- I think Iowa is in our area (Triwest).

Hey everyone! We got some good

news yesterday! After speaking to a

> few people and visiting the Tricare website we decided to switch

> Lucas over to Standard so his visits to Dr. Ponseti will be paid

> for.

>

> My husband went into the local Tricare office and asked to be

> switched over. The lady wanted to know why and he explained the

> whole story- starting with Lucas' first cast and ending with the

> surgery and relapse. Well, she said she wanted him to wait, that

she

> wanted to check everything out before switching because then he'd

be

> locked in for a year. Another thing, the hospital commander here

> won't let Standard beneficaries be seen on base- only Prime, so

we'd

> have to find an off base Ped if we did switch. Well, she found the

> lady who actually approves/disapproves the referrals and she came

> out to talk to my husband. Apparently the PCM who put in the

> referral for us, just put it in as a second referral. The lady

said

> she didn't know the whole story or she wouldn't have denied it.

> So...she changed it to say something about how his treatment here

> wasn't working and then approved it! We didn't have to switch to

> Standard and Tricare is also paying for my husband to travel to

Iowa

> and reimburseing us for last week! I am so excited! I'm going to

> write a nice letter for the lady behind the desk. If it wasn't for

> her asking questions and telling us not to change yet, we'd be on

> Standard and paying some out of pocket for the next year.

>

> Joyce called today and left me a great message! She was so excited

> and her voice was raised saying, " Tricare's paying for all your

> visits!!! " She is such a wonderful person!

>

> Just had to share the news. I know it's too late for , but

> maybe this will help someone else before they have to switch.

>

> Jenn

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