Military Officer - September 2007 - (Page 22)

OPERATION: HOME DELIVERY Convenient prescription delivery saves you time and money Picking up your ongoing prescriptions can be as simple as picking up your mail. Safe and convenient, home-delivered prescriptions from the TRICARE Mail Order Pharmacy make sense for everyone. Plus, you’ll also save money with Home Delivery.* Visit www.express-scripts.com/TRICARE or call toll-free 1.866.DOD.TMOP (1.866.363.8667) and start enjoying the savings and convenience of Home Delivery. yourviews fund it the same way you are funding this war: Borrow it. If you can spend [more than] $2 billion a week to continue the war, then add the costs of helping these people into your “annual” off-budget request. —Lt. Col. T.V. DiGangi Jr., USAF-Ret. via e-mail Out of Focus *The DoD Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee may set quantity limits on some medications. Other benefit limitations may apply. For more information, go to www.tricare.osd.mil/pharmacy/tmop.cfm. © 2007 Express Scripts, Inc. All Rights Reserved DD06-04288 ATTN:DIABETICS! MILITARY TRICARE MEMBERS & FAMILIES: VIRTUALLY PAIN-FREE TESTING! Supplies: NO CHARGE TO YOU!* Meter: NO CHARGE TO YOU!* FREE DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR! NO MORE TRIPS TO THE PHARMACY! In the July issue, page 51 [“In Focus”], is the caption supposed to imply that the ship in the picture is the USS South Carolina? The South Carolina was CGN-37, and was decommissioned in 1999. The ship in the picture is the USS Bainbridge (DLGN/CGN-25), [which] was decommissioned in 1996. —Cmdr. Bob Brown, USNR-Ret. via e-mail • Multiple Testing Sites • Fast & Accurate Test Results • Very Small Blood Sample Needed RE NEVER ANY UP-FRONT MEDIICAED!* HANDLE ALL INSURANCE COSTS! WE MED CT PAPERWORK! ACCEP T ACCEP OPTIGEN, Inc. Home Diabetes Supply Co. specializes in diabetes supplies for military personnel and their families. Editor’s note: The caption was not intended to imply that the ship in the photo is the USS South Carolina. The focus of that photo is the interaction of father and son. The USS Bainbridge just happens to be in the background. TRICARE Troubles I appreciate how hard MOAA works to keep [military retirees’] TRICARE beneﬁts intact. In spite of your efforts, fewer and fewer medical providers are accepting TRICARE — and I think I found out why when my wife had a recent surgery for melanoma. The difference between what the doctors charge — which I found quite reasonable, in light of the quality of the medical facility and the operation itself, which lasted [more than] two hours — and what TRICARE approved was astronomical almost to the point that I was embarrassed to even have TRICARE as my insurer. For example, the surgeon’s fee was $3,721, of which TRICARE approved Make The Call That Could Change Your Life: *Medicare deductible and co-pay may apply. Costs paid by Medicare and/or Military TriCare Insurance. 1-800-491-0557 MOAA News Exchange® 22 Sign up for MOAA’s FREE bi-weekly e-newsletter. Receive breaking news on military: ■ health care ■ pay and beneﬁts ■ ﬁnancial planning ■ and more! Go to www.moaa.org/email and log in with your e-mail address. MILITARY OFFICER SEPTEMBER 2007 http://www.express-scripts.com/TRICARE http://www.express-scripts.com/TRICARE http://www.tricare.osd.mil/pharmacy/tmop.cfm http://www.moaa.org/email

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Military Officer - September 2007

Military Officer - September 2007 Contents From the Editor From the President Your Views MOAA Directory Rapid Fire Washington Scene Financial Forum Ask the Doctor Chapter Activities Plan for Your Future At Home in a High-Rise Lone Star Living Common Ground Insert: Community Source Cover Story: Waging War on Disease More Than Beaches MOAA Scholarship Donors Pages of History Faces of MOAA Information Exchange Advertising Index MOAA Calendar Sounding Taps MOAA Member Services Encore

Military Officer - September 2007

For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.