Tricare as secondary..anyone familiar?

[mrsbrown]

What is the name of your state?AL


NCP stated tonight that they will be enrolling the kids under her Tricare thru the military. Just wondering if anyone has ever dealt with Tricare as a secondary? Or really how to use a secondary in general. I am clueless as to what to do with that. We have always just used a primary.

I have a upcoming appointment for Kindergarten shots in a couple of weeks. Do I just give the dr office the tricare information?

Of course this is going on that she will actually enroll them. I guess we will wait and see if anything comes in the mail. Thanks.

 

[ENASNI]

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What is the name of your state?AL


NCP stated tonight that they will be enrolling the kids under her Tricare thru the military. Just wondering if anyone has ever dealt with Tricare as a secondary? Or really how to use a secondary in general. I am clueless as to what to do with that. We have always just used a primary.

I have a upcoming appointment for Kindergarten shots in a couple of weeks. Do I just give the dr office the tricare information?

Of course this is going on that she will actually enroll them. I guess we will wait and see if anything comes in the mail. Thanks.

Find out if your doctor's office does bill secondary, make sure it is Tricare Standard and not "prime" if you have that in your state. That is an HMO kinda deal and needs referrals. I doubt it though. If your Pediatrician bills secondary, no worries Tricare usually does COB. (coordination of benefits).

 

[Shay-Pari'e]

Unfortunetly, I told the poster in her other thread....and provided a link,that if there is a military hospital within 60 miles then they must use it. Right now the NCP lives in the same town and the poster has stated the military hospital is a half our away.

Just call TriCare, the number is on the link.

Why so many new threads on the same subject?

 

[ENASNI]

Unfortunetely, I told the poster in her other thread....and provided a link,that if there is a military hospital within 60 miles then they must use it. Right now the NCP lives in the same town and the poster has stated the military hospital is a half our away.

Just call TriCare, the number is on the link.

Why so many new threads on the same subject?

Wait till we get some posts on the whole Botox/Migraine fiasco...Oy its a mess.
Tricare did not do very nice things.(not dissing the Government, it is just true)

 

[mrsbrown]

I started this one because after I first mentioned it on the other thread I figured it was kind of a seperate subject and might be better addressed in child support. I got tons of answers in the other thread though. Sorry for the repeat!

The 800 number will be great for CP to call..hopefully they deal with CP's even if it is the NCP in the military. We shall see if this even happens. But atleast now we know what to expect if it does. Thanks.

 

[mrsbrown]

Unfortunetly, I told the poster in her other thread....and provided a link,that if there is a military hospital within 60 miles then they must use it. Right now the NCP lives in the same town and the poster has stated the military hospital is a half our away.

Just call TriCare, the number is on the link.

Why so many new threads on the same subject?

I am not sure what you mean about where NCP lives. She lives 1.5 hours away at Fort Campbell, KY. We are in a small town in Alabama. NCP does not live in the same town.

 

[Shay-Pari'e]

I must have misunderstood. You stated the military hospital was a half hour away, so I assumed she lived close.

 

[mrsbrown]

I must have misunderstood. You stated the military hospital was a half hour away, so I assumed she lived close.

Oh I see. No, there is a military post a half an hour away. But it isn't where she is stationed. It is where I took the kids when they were still covered by their Dad's Tricare. There was a period after he got out of the military and we had moved here from KS that they were covered by Tricare for a few months. But that didn't help because they wouldn't let me on. Such is life.

 

[rmet4nzkx]

Please just keep 1 thread going, there is no need to continue to keep asking the same question over and over and over again and again and again
I did think this was an interesting pice of information though. You spend all this itme calling mom a deadbeat yet your husband was dishonorably discharged from the military.

3. When I tried to take the kids on post last year (Dad was military and had coverage after being dishonorable discharged for a few months)

Lady, get a life, get a job, stop interfering in mom's relationship with her children.

 

[mrsbrown]

Please just keep 1 thread going, there is no need to continue to keep asking the same question over and over and over again and again and again
I did think this was an interesting pice of information though. You spend all this itme calling mom a deadbeat yet your husband was dishonorably discharged from the military.

Lady, get a life, get a job, stop interfering in mom's relationship with her children.

Oh, I can't believe I put that. That's funny. It was a honorable discharge because since she joined the military he no longer had a family plan for if he had to return overseas. We were not married at that point. So they gave him a severance pay and let him out.

I don't know what you would consider a deadbeat parent but I am going to say that one who refuses to willing pay child support, visits her children on a 2 afternoons a year basis, never sends cards or gifts for birthdays or holidays, calls every few weeks or months for a couple of minutes, uses the kids when she is angry to relay messages to Dad, throws fits when her pay is garnished for child support, throws fits when they take out more for the months she didn't pay a penny, willingly admitted that she did not want primary custody and all around doesn't do anything the law doesn't force her to do for her kids, is not the best parent.

There is a reason the kids don't live with her. At least she was smart enough to admit that she wouldn't be a good parent to them. Many parents don't seem to be able to do that and then the kids are punished. I don't need to get a job. I enjoy staying home and none of us want the kids in public daycare. Mom has basically no relationship with the kids, but that is her own fault. You are just unwilling to accept that. We bent over backwards to try and help her for almost 2 years and are finally tired of the constant lies, disappointments and cancellations. I am guessing you are either similar to her in personality or you have a ex who is happily remarried.

None-the-less the people that helped about secondary insurance were a great help. Thanks again. We will see how it pans out.

 

[rmet4nzkx]

You lack credibility.
You said your husband was dishonorably dischared.
You said you and he wanted to use the insurance from his work because it was, court ordered, more convenient for you and you didn't want to use the local military medical facility that was only minutes away.
You have gone on and on in this thread about not answering the phone when she is calling and that she was planning on taking leave to visit the children, how is that not interfering?
I don't believe anything you say about this woman.
You are trying to manipulate this forum.
These children will benefit from every minute they are with their mother and or talking on the phone if you stop interfering with their relationship.
These children will benefit from every minute they are in child care if you get a job so you have something to occupy your time besides perseverating and obsessing on the children's mom.
If you are pregnant, please adopt a healthy lifestyle, all the stress you are creating all by yourself is not healthy for your unborn child.

 

[mrsbrown]

I don't know why I would have said she was taking leave to visit her children. She is taking leave but to visit her father in Texas for half of July. She has no plans to visit the kids. And is leaving in early September/late August for Iraq. We don't know if she even plans on visiting to say goodbye to them.

If he didn't have a honorable discharge then the kids wouldn't have continued to be covered for 3 months after his discharge. Nor would he have gotten paid and a severance package after we left. I used the wrong term. I doesn't matter anyways because you are hell bent on defending this women.
Yes, I am sure they would benefit if she actually made some effort!

Anyways...Tricare update! I called this morning and talked to a lady about the situation. She said that the kids will automatically be signed up for Tricare Standard once their Mom enrolls them in DEERS. With TriStan we can continue to go to their regular doctor once Mom gets them military id cards. Sounds like it might be possible...at least from what the Tricare lady says.

So, thanks for the suggestions everyone. This might work out for the best.