Im not sure if this has been posted. Hope everyone will help.
For those who are new to this effort, I am leading the Midwives Alliance in getting TRICARE to cover DEM services. Such discussions with TRICARE began back in May. After much discussion it is certain that only CPMs, not DEMs in general, will be considered by TRICARE in becoming authorized providers. This is a TRICARE decision, not one made by the Midwives Alliance.
The process to even begin reviewing CPMs as authorized providers has not officially begun, yet. My contact at TRICARE has not heard a need for CPMs by their "constituents" (those with TRICARE). I told him about the emails I get from TRICARE families, and he said he is not hearing this need.
So, it is time for him and TRICARE to hear the need for CPMs to be covered by TRICARE. He said that anyone with TRICARE wanting CPMs to be covered needs to send in that request for the need for CPMs to be authorized providers at:
http://tricare.mil/mybenefit/jsp/questions/feedback.jsp
THEN, please copy and paste what you have written in the feedback form and email that, with any identifying information you are willing to share, to tammi@novamidwife.org.
I will fax the emails you send to me directly to my contact in a big batch, because I know that there is great need for CPMs to become authorized providers in the CFR (their TRICARE regulations).
Please disseminate this, far and wide.
Tammi McKinley, CPM
Virginia
For those who are new to this effort, I am leading the Midwives Alliance in getting TRICARE to cover DEM services. Such discussions with TRICARE began back in May. After much discussion it is certain that only CPMs, not DEMs in general, will be considered by TRICARE in becoming authorized providers. This is a TRICARE decision, not one made by the Midwives Alliance.
The process to even begin reviewing CPMs as authorized providers has not officially begun, yet. My contact at TRICARE has not heard a need for CPMs by their "constituents" (those with TRICARE). I told him about the emails I get from TRICARE families, and he said he is not hearing this need.
So, it is time for him and TRICARE to hear the need for CPMs to be covered by TRICARE. He said that anyone with TRICARE wanting CPMs to be covered needs to send in that request for the need for CPMs to be authorized providers at:
http://tricare.mil/mybenefit/jsp/questions/feedback.jsp
THEN, please copy and paste what you have written in the feedback form and email that, with any identifying information you are willing to share, to tammi@novamidwife.org.
I will fax the emails you send to me directly to my contact in a big batch, because I know that there is great need for CPMs to become authorized providers in the CFR (their TRICARE regulations).
Please disseminate this, far and wide.
Tammi McKinley, CPM
Virginia
