military healthcare and adhd

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Thank you everyone!

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you!

Do you know about dyslexia diagnosis?

I have been trying to find this information, but all my google searches yield pages about active duty or new recruiting standards.

What does medical care have to do with active duty or recruiting standards. You need to go through health net/tricare (but they are changing the provider in our region soon). However, they often say they will not pay for something online and we've found they will pay. Start with the developmental ped. Your ped. can give you a referral. It usually takes a month or two to get in depending on how booked up they are. Last time I heard they only had two. For ADHD, you may be able to self refer to the child mental health clinic (and they may be able to refer you for services too) so call them while you are waiting.

Until very recently (I think this year) taking medication for adhd blocks a person from joining the military. The standards were recently relaxed so I think that is why military recruitment and enlistment stuff is popping up first

You need to look at tricare. For a child it is different. Either way Walter Reed and ft belvior clearly have services on their website, some self refer. I would geto a developmental ped. They are the gatekeepers. Tricare once we got to ours has for the most part been very generous. There were a few things like a specific therapy they would not pay as they were not in-network but it was affortable so we did not fight it. They do pay children's as we had an evaluation there and they pay Kk but we found in house staff generally better for specialists.

No dyslexia diagnosis as my kid read easily own own but the developmental ped has checked for all that regularly.

I would self refer to the mental health clinic and get to any primary care. Go to a licensed doc over a resident or intern as they have more power to push the referral through. Or that has been our experience. It will take a month or two to get into developmental peds generally. Either doc is fine from what I hear. Don't let the primary care blow you off and if they do wait a few weeks and see a different doc. You will get a huge run around until you get to developmental peds.

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Anonymous wrote:They will do it if they have availability. Otherwise, they'll tell you that you need to do this privately, though they should cover that cost. They may tell you where to go though. You need to try to get the appointments first and they'll tell you whether they have availability for dependents or if they have too many active duty needs right now. This info is about 7-8 years old, but I bet it's much the same.

What are you talking about? They have plenty of appointments, even 7-8 years ago. Maybe the smaller clinics but the bigger hospitals are not an issue and they need the bigger hospital.

I'm confused by your tone. But, what I experienced is that I was given the initial appointment in psychiatry to get neuropsych testing. At the initial appointment, I was told that they didn't have availability to treat dependents at the moment. At that time, I was given approval to seek testing privately.

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Anonymous wrote:They will do it if they have availability. Otherwise, they'll tell you that you need to do this privately, though they should cover that cost. They may tell you where to go though. You need to try to get the appointments first and they'll tell you whether they have availability for dependents or if they have too many active duty needs right now. This info is about 7-8 years old, but I bet it's much the same.

What are you talking about? They have plenty of appointments, even 7-8 years ago. Maybe the smaller clinics but the bigger hospitals are not an issue and they need the bigger hospital.

I'm confused by your tone. But, what I experienced is that I was given the initial appointment in psychiatry to get neuropsych testing. At the initial appointment, I was told that they didn't have availability to treat dependents at the moment. At that time, I was given approval to seek testing privately.

If you got a referral out, you got treatment. It's usually, but not always at the hospital. We have been referred out for some specialities. Some clinics are only for active duty but except a few things like chiropractic car you are still covered under tricare.