Posted on 07/30/2016 6:28:02 AM PDT by SandRat
Leaders of military medicine are promising TRICARE beneficiaries a smooth transition of healthcare coverage next year when three support contract regions (North, South and West) are reorganized into two (East and West), and many TRICARE users see different contractors take charge of civilian provider networks that deliver health benefits off base.
The two new mammoth TRICARE support contracts, valued at a combined $58 billion over five years, are designed to more standardize care quality across networks, improve monitoring of provider performance, and smooth continuity of care by requiring networks providers to share patient care data with the military direct care system using electronic health records.
The new contracts also will “make it easier for our highly mobile population to enroll and receive care,” said Dr. Karen Guice, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. That’s because care management services are to be enhanced. This along with a merger of two regions should help families with special needs children avoid some current hassles of change-of-station moves, such as interrupted therapy treatments.
Most of which is sucked up by multiple layers of bureaucrats, both DoD and civilian contractors starting at the local level and reaching all the way to the regional commands to DC.
(As an Army doc, recently retired, I know of what I speak)
“That’s because care management services are to be enhanced.”
Bureaucrat-speak for cutting costs through tighter case management. It could suck if you have a disease like Ulcerative Colitis and can only get reimbursed for a conventional therapy.
It also means bend over and pay more especially if many medications are not covered and there is no generic alternative
But govt knows best what treatments you need and deserve
It sucks if your try to get Competent Medical treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Especially competent Dr. treatment.
I’ve even been asked by a Dr. “What’s TBI?”
And so America’s most anti-military “military establishment” EVER strikes again...
For them, the myth that “One Size Fits All” blocks any recognition of reality.
Wow. I hope you are getting attention from a good doctor.
It seems even more ODD that as a 5 year TBI Survivor, even with all the Medical Exams, Consultations, Therapeutic sessions I've had and continue to have, that BIA Awareness Month was never mentioned. I only learned of BIA Awareness Month wandering the Internet, in January of this year.
The question I ask myself, and now you, why is not BIA Awareness Month not an item front and center the way that the March of Dimes, or Polio prevention was, that Breast Cancer is, that preventing DRUNK driving was and is, that the Vietnam War War and the Draft was?
Add this to your anger...An estimated 1.7 million people sustain a TBI annually. Of them: 52,000 die, 275,000 are hospitalized, and. 1.365 million, nearly 80%, are just treated and released from an emergency department.
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