Mar 24 2009
Tricare Overseas
One of the things we were told to do when Johnnie was leaving the US was to transfer our Tricare to cover us while we are here. So when he arrived he did all the paperwork for all of us. I’ve been to the doc once since we got here, and the kids have had shots. No problem. Last week Chris went in so they could check his tongue. Not sure how it has gotten past us all these years but Chris is tongue tied, and needs to have something done. So they referred us to an off base clinic. Yesterday we were given a time to show up between the hours of, in order to see a doc. We picked him up from school but before we got there we received the wonderful phone call that said “Hey, he’s not enrolled in Tricare!” Umm hello he has been enrolled in Tricare for 13 years now, how did he just vanish? It seems that even though the paper work was done when Johnnie arrived, it was not entered in the system because we were not here. Not sure what was supposed to click when we arrived to make it happen but whatever it was, didn’t. So none of us are in Traicare Prime Pacific yet, we are still enrolled for Florida. So we made the decision to just pay for the visit since we had already pulled him out of school, and continued to head to the hospital. It’s a nice hospital but we were a bit surprised when we got to our location to see lines and lines of people. It seems the afternoons are walk in hours so even though we were only 20 minutes into the 3 hour time frame we had been given there were 18 people in front of us. If you figure 10 min minimum for each, that was at least a 3 hour wait. We decided since this has waited 13 years, it can wait another day or two while the Tricare overseas paperwork gets cleared up and hopefully a morning appointment slot comes available. If not, we’ll pack a lunch and camp out there one afternoon to see the doc!
