Tricare-Military Health Insurance & Skin Removal

Only covered when used to restore function, correct a serious birth defect, restore

body form after a serious injury, improve appearance of a severe disfigurement, or

after a medically necessary mastectomy. ANYONE had any luck with them removing skin after  gastrich bypass????

TRICARE covers cosmetic, reconstructive and plastic surgery to improve the physical appearance of a beneficiary only under the following cir****tances:

• Correction of a birth defect
• Restoration of a body form following an accidental injury
• Revision of disfiguring and extensive scars resulting from neoplastic surgery (i.e., surgery that removes a tumor or cyst)
• Reconstructive breast surgery following a medically necessary mastectomy
• Penile implants and testicular prostheses for conditions resulting from organic origins or for organic impotency
• Surgery to correct pectus excavatum
• Liposuction when medically necessary
• Panniculectomy (tummy tuck) performed in conjunction with an abdominal or pelvic surgery when medical review determines that the procedure significantly contributes to the safe and effective correction or improvement of bodily function.

To be covered, surgeries must be performed no later than December 31^st of the year following the accidental injury or surgical trauma, except in the case of postmastectomy reconstructive breast surgery or cases involving children who may require a growth period. Were you specifically told about needing to have PS by 12/31 of the year following surgery by a Tricare official, or was this your interpretation?  I'm getting ready to go for my consult soon, so I'm trying to put all of my ducks in a row.  My friend had PS this spring, and she was 4 years PO.  Tricare covered her surgery.