military to civi hospital?

miissxangela · February 28, 2008

Just wanted to know if any of you tricare prime bandsters had problems getting in to a military hospital for surgery and requested to be referred to a civilian hospital?? I went to my seminar today and the waiting list to the hospital I am assigned is 6mos long!! All of the posts I've read about you folks with tricare prime got in within a few weeks. There are also no other hospitals in this area (Virginia/Maryland/North Carolina) that do bariatric surgery...unless maybe you know of somewhere??? Suggestions greatly appreciated!

minpinmom · February 29, 2008

Fight! Fight! Fight, Angie Fight! (suposed to be to the old highschool fight song)

You know my opinion. They can't force you to use on base facilities. I fought for my husband - wasn't easy, but I did and I won!

Don't give up - and don't give them the option.

If you tell them and they say no, let me know, I will pull out my old letters that I wrote and I can tell you what chains of command to write to. It only took 2-3 weeks when I went to bat for my hubby.

You can do this!

miissxangela · February 29, 2008

haha thank you :rolleyes2: Do I need to have a reason other than I'm not waiting 6mos. for surgery to want to be referred out to a civi dr??? I'm hoping they are cooperative. But my luck, they won't be. Thank you for all your help and I will definitely let you know if they say no!