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I had my band removed 8 months ago at KACH in West Point NY. The new surgeon there is not doing bariatric surgery so I had a referral put in for a sleeve in the National Capital Area Surgical Weight Loss Program at Bethesda Naval Hosp. but they denied it because I have to live within 50 miles. I have a sister in DC but they flatly refused...so i assumed all MTF's have a requirement that you live within a specific radius. We can only use West Point since we moved closer to where it is located. VA in Bronx NY does only the sleeve but they because it is VA and not DOD I think they don't accept Tricare for their sleeves