The report emphasized the availability of preventive services, including eye exams, immunizations, hearing tests, mammograms, pap tests and prostate exams. The report shows higher patient satisfaction in such areas as thoroughness of exams and treatment, accurate diagnoses, provider skill and outcome of care. Enrollment costs for retirees didn't change, nor are they expected to. And access standards aren't always met at remote locations and where bases have closed. Annual re-enrollment became automatic this year.
Beneficiaries now receive a notice in the mail that they've been automatically re-enrolled.
They are then given the option to cancel their membership. Speed claims processing and stop creditors from pursuing our people. It's a big task. The report points out what military medicine used to be like, when it focused only on treating illness, with little emphasis on preventing it. Or, when you needed an appointment and had to call first thing in the morning or on the first morning of the month.