Tri Care Standard

Hi Folks,

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in Dec 13 (Gleason 6, PSA 5.7) and we are going to take another look at the PSA/DRE in mid April. I suspect that given the rapid rise of my PSA over the last year I will be looking at surgery.

I am going to call TriCare but I'm sure many of you know how hard it is get a straight answer from them so I'm hoping I can get some advice.

I am a retiree so I'm TriCare Standard and the doctor(s) I saw while active (TriCare Prime Remote) are not listed as network OR out of network providers under the TriCare Standard listings.

Anyone have any experience dealing with this? Also, I live in a small town and the surgeon here has limited experience - 200 procedures in his career - so I'd like to go to the Cleveland Clinic or Johns Hopkins? Anyone been down that road with Tricare?

Thanks,

RL

PS. Like this isn't fun enough.

Thanks John. The "catastrophic cap" is now 3K and the web site says that if you go out of network those costs don't count towards that cap. RL