Hello all,
Today hubs and I had a little preterm labor scare, all is well, but I did realize that I am no where near as ready for this baby as I thought. The one thing the nurse told me to do was research and find a peditrician. I have no idea where to start, anyone have info on peds that accept tricare in the area. Thanks!
** I am looking to stay off base since my medical care there has been less than stellar. I feel pretty bad saying that, considering my husband is a corpseman
Re: Pediatricians in Jacksonville.
I hate when people give this advice. It is only correct if the base hospital has availability. I had our DS 9 days ago. We got him in DEERS and Tricare last week, and he's on Prime, and will be seen out in town because the base doesn't have availability. Just like I'm Prime, my PCM is out in town, but I was seen on base for my OB appointments.
OP, DS will be seen by Dr. Martin. We haven't seen him yet, but will be soon. I agree call Tricare and see who is available that accept Tricare. Are you Prime or Standard?
We put DD on Prime when we moved here (reluctantly). I was told that we would have to be seen out in town and they referred us to Onslow Pediatrics. I took DD there for her 6 month checkup. I waited 2 hours in the waiting room to be seen until they called me up and said I would need to reschedule. The women behind the counter yell to get people's attention in the waiting room and there were no less than 30 people there at the same time as me. I have never seen that many people in a doctor's office at once waiting to be seen.
I thought maybe it was just a fluke but the girl next to me said it was always like this. She also said when she filled out her questions to be scored by the nurses on her daughter, she called back to find out her score and the nurses said they forgot. They never scored it. I got the packet for my questions for the 6 month checkup and no one ever went over it with me, asked any questions about my daughters development....nothing. They looked her over, checked her diaper, weighed her and that was about it. They charged over $400 for that. The doctor was friendly and they had a sick side and a well side in the waiting area but that's about the only good thing I can say about it. Aside from that, the place was absolutely filthy. I was afraid to touch anything..... Overall, it felt like an in and out type thing just so they could make money.
I got my info straight from tricare tyvm. I called when I first got here and THEY told me since I was outside the radius that I could been seen out in town NOT because of an availability reason so if you don't like what I said then blame tricare.
I was just saying that what you said wasn't always the case, tyvm. I have seen what you posted multiple times on here by other people and I wanted to clarify that. It's misinformation even if you got it from Tricare. If your outside the radius that's a different story, but I know many people who are within radius' who are seen out in town because the base is too full.