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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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Help with tricare
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Permalink Reply by EmilyNicole98 on
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I can't speak from experience because I don't have kids, but the majority of the wives at our base prefer to be on Standard for pregnancies. There's a lot more flexibility and you can often get in more often and quicker. Standard would also be the better option if you need to see specialists so you don't have to keep getting referrals. You're automatically on this plan when you get put into DEERS and if you want to switch to Prime, you would have to go into a Tricare office.
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Permalink Reply by meagan5220 on
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I personally use Standard, and wouldn't ever sign up for Prime unless standard was no longer an option. I refuse to be assigned a doctor or have to deal with crazy referrals. I have a friend with Crohns and while she doesn't have kids she prefers to be on standard because she can just go into the doctor when she is having an issue. To continue with your doctor you do have to make sure they are contracted through Tricare. If they are not you will end up paying a lot of money out of pocket. Look on Tricare's website for the find a doctor option to see. Even if the office says they accept Tricare they need to be contracted through Tricare which those doctors are listed on Tricare's website. Once you are in deers you should be good to go. You can still go to a nearby Tricare office or call Tricare and ask them if you are all set up. Your ID is your insurance card so as long as you have that you should be good.
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You are welcome. I think you could also put your kids on prime and stay on standard if you want. I just personally have never been ok with having a doctor assigned to me that I cant switch easily, or have to jump through hoops to get referrals. I had enough of that as a kid because we were on the state insurance. I got told when I was 8 I had breast cancer by a doctor (based on no scientific test) they wouldn't let us switch, another time my sister almost lost her hearing because patients saw whatever doctor was in that day (which is sometimes how military hospitals work you just see whoever is available.) and they didn't read her chart before they told a nurse to perform a procedure. Luckily the nurse caught it and stopped right before she was about to start.
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