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Yea. What is so frustrating is the Geniuses at Tricare come up with this idea without having ever spent any time on the ground learning how the Philippine medical system works. Then they award the contract to set up the program and write the rules to the contractor that has the contract to certify hospitals and doctors to be allowed to treat Tricare patients.

So, on 30 October I go to a briefing on the Demonstration Project that is scheduled to start 1 January. For the Metropolitan Manila area they contracted with exactly ONE hospital which is located in the busiest, most traffic congested section of Manila and tell us that we must travel 2-3 hours to see the doctors that are located at that hospital, but that if we don’t use THEIR doctors, Tricare won’t reimburse us. The problem is, it will cost more to travel to see THEIR doctor than it would for us to pay a doctor with an office within 30 minutes of our homes.

We took a video of the filth in the one hospital that they got to agree to be their hospital in one of the other demonstration project areas. Check out this YouTube http://youtu.be/BOQAVfgf7yQ and also check out my latest article on this at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/vetscor/2956757/posts?page=7

When we asked about the waivers they say that we can file in order to maintain our doctor that has been treated us for serious conditions, they did not want to tell us how long the have to make the waiver decision. we finally got them to tell us they have 5 working days and if they deny the waiver we can appeal to Tricare. When we asked how long Tricare had to make the appeal decision, they said “we don’t know, we’ll have to ask Tricare and get back to you”

Less than 60 days until the start date and they don’t even know what the rules of the program are that they are going to require we follow. Nothing of the details of how the program is supposed to work is in writing. They are just going to make it up as the go along.

It’s scary.