:bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Do not get your hopes up if you approval for office visits from Tricare. Everything will go fine until you need final approval for the actual surgery, then they will deny you. I was one week out from having surgery back in June and the Drs office called saying they have not gotten approval for the surgery--you do all the work call Tricare have the insurance person at the drs office work with you and then they deny at the last minute.

I was Tricare South, now I am in CA and am Tricare West I don't know if I'm willing to fight right now, I was so disappointed, I don't know if I can do it again. I might just wait and see if it gets approval over the next year or so. I cannot afford to to self-pay.

Lord knows my bmi is high enough and I have about 5 co-morbidities.

So I'm not trying to get you down. But please don't get your hopes up too high with Tricare you will get crushed.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I have a friend who was approved for the gastric bypass through tricare prime.

TRICARE Prime seems to be moving a bit quicker now...at least it feels that way. I had my consult on 6/3 and was approved on 6/27. That is even with a 2 week wait I had because my PCM kept sending the referral in wrong.