Hi I am currently in Tricare South (prime). My husband was stationed in Georgia but I came back to Texas once he went to Germany. I now need to get a pre-deployment screening (for dependents) and it needs to be done soon!!! I was wondering if there was a simple way for me to do this. Thank You for the Answers!!!
2007-12-12 21:27:43 · 6 answers · asked by Jojo 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
His chain of command should be helping you with this! Tricare really has nothing to do with this. The only place you will be able to get this done is through a military medical care facility. You will need to go to San Antonio, Corpus Christi, El Paso or Houston to get the screeening done, but you need to provide them with the correct forms provided by your husband's command. There are lots of items to take into consideration besides general physicals. You will both need to be screened for financial and mental. And why are YOU calling it a pre-deployment screening. You are deploying. If you are PCS'ing overseas it is called an overseas screening. Get your husband on the ball and have him go talk to the person in admin doing his transfer. Yahoo answers is not the miracle network for military people that are not talking to the right people at work. He has a supervisior, go ask for help. I'm sure if he has even asked for help he didn't listen to the answer. I used to deal with this everyday when I did transfers.
2007-12-13 00:21:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before going through all of this drama...do you have orders saying you are command sponored for Germany? If you do not have these orders, you cannot get an overseas physical.
Then, the next step is to get your military passport. You cannot go to Germany and live with a tourist's passport. It is very important to check to see that you have the right passport.
The best thing for you to do is call the nearest military installation and make appointments for EFMP, health clinic for appointments (your PAP, physical, and immunizations), SATO for your airplane tickets, and the passport office. If it is too far to drive, then get a hotel. The cost of a hotel will be worth it if you try to do this outside of the military community. This is not something to try to do in the civilian world. You will need people who know how to do this. Be preapred, this takes time. EFMP does not happen overnight. It could take a month to get the approval. Mine took 3 weeks and I did not have any medical issues.
2007-12-13 12:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by Pink Monkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is:
Go to the nearest military clinic or hospital, with your ID card in hand, and inform them that you need to have a PDP done for "X" reason. Having your ID card will provide them with all the information they need to ensure that the bills are paid by the appropriate Tricare office. Also, having a copy of your husband's PCS orders would be a really good idea.
2007-12-13 07:09:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, you need an OVERSEAS screening. dependents do not get pre deploymnet screenings, as we do not deploy.
Basically, it's a questionnaire that asks about 500 questions about the state of your mental and physical health and it determines whether or not you can get the appropriate care OCONUS. you must have a pap within the last six months and a dental exam within the last 12.
your PCM or Tricare office can provide you the paperwork required
2007-12-13 10:02:47 · answer #4 · answered by Mrsjvb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your husband in the Army? We are army and have a similar situation so I will just tell you what we have done. I don't know what part of Texas you are in, but I know there are bases there, hopefully you are near one but if not it will still be okay, it just might take a little more calling around. My husband was in Alabama on unaccompanied orders and now he has orders to Germany and we are in San Diego. There are only Navy and Marine bases here and they would not do our screening for us and they directed us to the person we should contact at the nearest army post. We are going through Fort Irwin which is in California but quite a ways away from us. They told us we need to get the forms DA-5888 and DA-7246, you can get them on usapa.army.mil, these are for the army, if you are from a different service you need to get the forms they require. They said for me to have a current PAP smear and a full physical (performed by your pcm, we have a civilian doctor because all the MTF here are full), I have two children who need full physicals and immunization records(really quick about that, tricare does not cover physicals, so we are paying out of pocket for them because we have a civilian provider and they would not allow us to get the screenings at the Military Treatment Facility, I got the run around from Tricare, they told me to get my pcm to get an authorization from Tricare for the physical based upon the fact that it is required by the military for travel overseas but my pcm does not understand and I don't have time to wait for tricare to approve an authorization and the physical is not that expensive and we need them quickly as well, luckily my daughter was due for her well baby exam so I just have to pay for my son. For my physical my pcm let me make the appointment and I bet tricare will try to deny paying for it but for my son the pcm wouldn't even make the appointment because of tricare not covering physicals. However I am going to submit the bill to Tricare because it is not a voluntary physical it is required and they should pay for it.) Once we have those they said we could fax them to the head of the EFMP overseas screening at Fort Irwin and they will sign off on them, if everything checks out okay. If you are near a base I would contact their EFMP screening office or the MTF, explain to them that your husband is already over in Germany and you need to get the EFMP screening and see what they say, some people have been able to deal with other branches than the service their husband is in, but that was not the case with us. Some of the other branches of service require dental screening as well. You also need no fee passports, if you don't already have them. I can tell you what we did to obtain those if you don't already know. Let me know if you have any more questions or if you need me to clear anything up for you because I rambled but I was trying to cover most of what I have found out.
2007-12-13 06:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by pinkkitten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, call Tricare South and they will give you all the info you need. 1-800-444-5445
2007-12-13 06:09:23 · answer #6 · answered by Rabbit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋