WOW My DH will be jealous. It's got to be alot better than Ft Sill OK. You should have a lot of fun there. Fresh sea food. Yummmmm. Congratulations Diana

I was told by a Tricare representative that they have up to 5 business days from when they receive it to process it, because it is a surgery (I don't remember her exact words) but that is was a special pre-authorization and normal pre-authorizations take up to 30 days. It took 24 hours (from when my surgeon's office faxed it over) for mine to show pending and then another 24 hours to get my approval. If they still tell you they haven't received anything by tomorrow or Thursday, I'd have your surgeon's office re-submit the packet. Good Luck!! Andi

Congrats, let us know when you get a date. I have one week til surgery I am excited and nervous all at the same time. Leann

Im not sure if you'll be able to have the surgery where you are now. I belive you need to have a year of retainability(sp) at your current base. I can tell you for a fact that LRMC does not do WLS. But fear not. There are 2 Drs here in Germany that do wls and tricare covers all if it 100%. Im having my surgery at St Johanis(sp) which is only 5 minutes from LRMC. Then theres another Dr in Frankfurt that performs the surgery too. Now I know you want to get the ball going. BUt I would suggest you wait till you get to Germany. It shouldnt take long for you to get a referal from your PCM. For me, it took about a month from when my PCM put the referal in to see the surgeon, have my appt with the surgeon, wait for tricare to approve me and get my surgery date. It happened pretty quick. And from what I hear, thats the norm. Alrighty, I hope this made sense to you. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. -Mary

I went online today to look at the refferals and It was there! I am so excited!