How fast were you approved by insurance (TriCare) or others?

[RestlessMonkey 7]

you're right! Well, my husband is Army retired. Odd isn't it? Tricare standard is "free" but we pay deductible etc. I'm glad of it but then my husand was promised free health care for him and his dependents as part of his "employment package" when he enlisted in 1972.

[SusieC 0]

You must be retired... because Tricare Prime does not have a cost to active duty dependents. If you were active duty Tricare Standard would end up costing quite a bit more than Prime.

Yes my husbad is retired.....But if there was a post near by then we could still get everything 100% free. But becase there is not one near we have to pay $12 co-pay or each docotor visit and $3 for each precrition.. Which is not bad at all compared to some insurance that i have seen.

[h@rt*s mommy 1]

Cigna OAP took only 5 days, after seeing the surgeon, I got my surgery scheduled 4 weeks after my insurance approval letter was sent to me and the doctors office.

AWESOME!

[MirandaK 0]

Cigna OAP took only 5 days, after seeing the surgeon, I got my surgery scheduled 4 weeks after my insurance approval letter was sent to me and the doctors office.

AWESOME!

You are so lucky then. I have Cigna OAP and it took them 6 long weeks for my approval.

[h@rt*s mommy 1]

WOW.. well, I called them PERSONALLY and told them look, I have been waiting for this for a year and a half, and I have been screwed over by you, because my surgeons office didnt really get a clear answer for what needed to be done for approval in the first place.

So with that said, literally, the next 3 business days, we had the approval letters in the mail. It was awesome. I was the one calling the surgeons office telling them I had the approval letter, they had to search through the mail first, then they found it before they could schedule my surgery date. Funny huh...

[SusieC 0]

WOW.. well, I called them PERSONALLY and told them look, I have been waiting for this for a year and a half, and I have been screwed over by you, because my surgeons office didnt really get a clear answer for what needed to be done for approval in the first place.

So with that said, literally, the next 3 business days, we had the approval letters in the mail. It was awesome. I was the one calling the surgeons office telling them I had the approval letter, they had to search through the mail first, then they found it before they could schedule my surgery date. Funny huh...

well at least they got it......and thats the good thing!