Hi Everyone,

I have started looking for a Surgeon that will take Tricare Prime. I am thinking of have the Lap Band done

If you have any sugestions I coould use your help. I would like to have the surgery in San Antonio.

Thanks so much !

You need to go to your PCM and get a referral. Tricare will refer you to a doctor that performs the surgery.

Thank you !

Well, that depends are you prime or standard? With standard, you don't need the referral and can go to the tricare website and find a covered doctor. You do need a PCM referral for prime though.

So, I'm Tricare Prime. My PCM sends in a referral for WLS and Tricare picks my surgeon.?

I wonder if I can request one that's not on the list?

Tricare *may* let you change the doc on the referral (I've never tried) but they won't let you pick on that is not a network dr. Then you will go for a consult with the surgeon, nut eval and pysch eval, then the surgery gets submitted for approval...which may be yes or no depending on the whole package.

You can change the doc on your referral from TriCare (all you have to do is call), but this doctor you want may not accept TriCare.

I'm glad I have Tricare ~ But it can be a challenage at times .