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Originally Posted by WhiskeyBoarder
Both locations are indicating that I need to be on active duty orders (for more than 30 days) to allow them authorization to complete the exam.
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The medical facilities are required to bill someone for the time and lab costs. I've heard of three ways to handle this, but I only have first-hand experience with one.
1. If you're on AD orders for 30 days or more, you're automatically covered by AD Tricare. That's easiest for the clinic, so it's what they tell you to do. (Or at least, that's what they told me.)
2. Orders for less than 30 days give them no account to bill,
unless your orders explicitly provide it. I have been told that your unit can put you on orders for one day, with whatever appropriate accounting and billing information the clinic needs; then the clinic will gladly see you and process you on that one particular day.
Note: I think this means you'll need two separate one-day orders. One for when they run all the lab tests and take samples, and another two or three weeks later when the doc does the physical exam and signs the paperwork. In between, the clinic will run labs and (theoretically) the doc will review your file so he's informed before the actual exam. This doesn't seem to fit what Eagle5US said about the same set of orders, so it may not be correct. Find out and report back, so others can benefit.
3. Schmooze the admin folks into letting you do it anyway. I can neither confirm nor deny that this works.
