UPDATED AND BUMPED 15 NOV 10
Today's update (I'm gonna have to start a new post here soon). 12 days later, still no prescription in the mail. I go in to TRICARE. I wait (only five minutes this time!!!) and tell them my story. The patient liaison tells me I can file a complaint through an online TRICARE comment system or through ICE (Sorry, folks, no confidence here).
The TRICARE rep, wonderfully helpful though calls an actual reputable hospital (Boeblingen Kreis) and asks the questions my wife and I have (we think it’s a food allergy and whether they test for it or not). She makes us an appointment at the new hospital for December (another 30 days away). Unfortunately, because our original referral (issued in JULY!!!!) was issued under the old contract and would have to be updated by a Clinic doctor in order for the authorization to take place.
So, we have another appointment, with yet another doctor, to get yet another referral, to yet again to TRICARE, to sit for another 30-45 minutes, to get them to yet again fax a request for authorization to our new London pay-masters, for me to come back yet again in a few days from then, to wait yet again 30-45 minutes, to get yet again another approved authorization form, to finally go to see our new doctor.
Someone please tell me again were the whole ‘free’ is in ‘free’ health care?!?!?!?!
Please look at graphics below. Tell me it’s more expensive paying out of your own pocket. Go ahead, I dare you.
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Today's update (I'm gonna have to start a new post here soon). 12 days later, still no prescription in the mail. I go in to TRICARE. I wait (only five minutes this time!!!) and tell them my story. The patient liaison tells me I can file a complaint through an online TRICARE comment system or through ICE (Sorry, folks, no confidence here).
The TRICARE rep, wonderfully helpful though calls an actual reputable hospital (Boeblingen Kreis) and asks the questions my wife and I have (we think it’s a food allergy and whether they test for it or not). She makes us an appointment at the new hospital for December (another 30 days away). Unfortunately, because our original referral (issued in JULY!!!!) was issued under the old contract and would have to be updated by a Clinic doctor in order for the authorization to take place.
So, we have another appointment, with yet another doctor, to get yet another referral, to yet again to TRICARE, to sit for another 30-45 minutes, to get them to yet again fax a request for authorization to our new London pay-masters, for me to come back yet again in a few days from then, to wait yet again 30-45 minutes, to get yet again another approved authorization form, to finally go to see our new doctor.
Someone please tell me again were the whole ‘free’ is in ‘free’ health care?!?!?!?!
Please look at graphics below. Tell me it’s more expensive paying out of your own pocket. Go ahead, I dare you.
Read the whole story under the page
