DCS Treatment and Obama-Care

[mdax]

No matter what the aca puts in place I'll keep my dan coverage.
In my opinion government cannot be trusted to do anything correctly and I don't want to be figuring out a bureaucratic nightmare while bent and trying to get treatment...

 

[Aguablanco1]

Doc,
You went exactly where I was headed. Regardless of private insurance status, DAN is the most likely insurance to help one offshore. That's why I have it.
RichH

 

[tracydr]

I went to a hospital last spring because I thought that I might have DCS. My insurance ( I didn't have DAN) wanted to take it to a " Medical Review Board" that would take 3-5 days to decide,even though the Tricare website specifically said that HBO treatment was authorized for DCS. I'm not sure if they weren't getting the point that I was in the ER and it was considered and Emergency or where the disconnect was but it took almost 24 hours to get straightened out.
Long enough that I know I will have DAN from now on.

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

I went to a hospital last spring because I thought that I might have DCS. My insurance ( I didn't have DAN) wanted to take it to a " Medical Review Board" that would take 3-5 days to decide,even though the Tricare website specifically said that HBO treatment was authorized for DCS. I'm not sure if they weren't getting the point that I was in the ER and it was considered and Emergency or where the disconnect was but it took almost 24 hours to get straightened out.

Wow. That's hard to believe yet not hard to believe.