Navy veteran There was no problem in enrolling in the birth program run by last year’s Humana in Indiana, who found out that she had dropped her after giving birth. In the e -mail reviewed by NBC News, the case manager welcomed her in September after six months of pregnancy. She gave birth to a baby on Christmas Eve.
Health care was a bright place at the end of her service. She developed after saying that she retired from the military in 2017 due to post -traumatic stress disorders and was raped by other sailors. In the Active Duty, reviewed by NBC News, her release certificate was honored with the retirement of disability. So she was eligible for tricare.
“The comfort I left was at least I was able to start again because I had health care,” the woman said. NBC News holds her name because she said she was a victim of sexual assault. “I feel robbed.”
In January, she was told that when she went to the local military office through a marriage certificate, a separate document, and a baby’s birth certificate, she was no longer entitled to insurance by adding her newborn daughter as a dependents.
She insisted that she should benefit from medical insurance. She received a letter from the Veterans’ Military Service, and NBC News confirmed that there was a permanent disorder related to her military service.
After a while, she said she received a call that canceled her postpartum appointment six weeks later because she was notified that the doctor’s office did not have insurance.
She also canceled her mental health promise and began to distribute her drug to treat postpartum depression and anxiety. She got something he thought as a norovirus (vomiting, chills, fatigue), but he did not see a doctor.
And she suffered from breastfeeding as many new mothers do. Under Tricare, she would have been able to access breastfeeding counseling and 12 other postpartum services.
She talked about her daughter. “This anxiety is worse than it. It’s constant.”
During this, Tricare sent a series of letters reviewed by NBC News, and requested more than $ 15,700 for refunds from the medical provider’s refund for 66 claims from February 2024 to childbirth.
The letter said that the provider was in charge of the repayment of Tricare and said, “If the beneficiary needs to pay, the provider will contact you directly.” She is waiting for listening if she needs to pay.
In a statement on the NBC News, the Defense Department proposed that the veteran would contact customer service.
But she has long passed. She collected temporary insurance for the baby. Separate Veteran Military Task ProgramAnd her husband’s regular registration period was recently opened, so he was able to guarantee all of his civilian jobs. The benefits began on April 1.
The first thing she did was a book promise. One is for four months of the baby. One is to see the painful chunks of the incision, and the other is to solve her mental health.
