I have family living about 2 hours away. I am going to change my address with Tricare to their address and drive 2 hours to go to doctors appointments to get the care I want. Then when it gets to be a few weeks befor my due date, I will go stay with family until the baby is born. The only issues with this is I have to go to a PCM to get a referral to the OB I want to see, but at least that way I will get the care I am wanting and be able to deliver somewhere I feel comfortable. Do you all think this is logical?

I'm not completely sure, but I think to change your address with Tricare you have to change it with DEERS and that changes your permanent address with the military. I would look into it a bit more. Also see about Tricare Remote.

Steph is right you need to change your address with DEERS before you can do anything with Tricare. Thats a lot of driving, why not just move there now? so you don't have to worry about driving all the time. Then if you are able to get on Tricare Prime Remote you have a bigger choice in doctors.

I'm not completely sure, but I think to change your address with Tricare you have to change it with DEERS and that changes your permanent address with the military. I would look into it a bit more. Also see about Tricare Remote.

It would be a "temporary" change of address, while keeping my permanent address the same, as if I was visiting family for a few months. The lady I spoke to at Tricare said that it wouldn't change back unless I called to change it back. So, basically it would look like I am still paying for my appartment, but I am visiting my family like to help with my pregnancy or whatever. Which is basically what I will be doing since I will be going down there to stay for a couple days once or twice a month and then coming back up here so I can see my husband on the weekends. If I could get out of my appartment lease I would just move down there and drive up here on the weekends and stay in a hotel, but that won't work.

I understand how you feel about giving birth at the hospital where you have to go, but you need to think, thats a lot of work to go through to go some place else. Have you toured both facilities that you are using for your options?

It would be a "temporary" change of address, while keeping my permanent address the same, as if I was visiting family for a few months. The lady I spoke to at Tricare said that it wouldn't change back unless I called to change it back. So, basically it would look like I am still paying for my appartment, but I am visiting my family like to help with my pregnancy or whatever. Which is basically what I will be doing since I will be going down there to stay for a couple days once or twice a month and then coming back up here so I can see my husband on the weekends. If I could get out of my appartment lease I would just move down there and drive up here on the weekends and stay in a hotel, but that won't work.

Here's the thing Tricare doesn't do anything that DEERS doesn't say ok to ( in a nutshell). If you want to switch areas DEERS has to have the new address.( i know I have 'moved' many times as well as done temp moves) If you want to be seen an area that is not where you address is then you would need authorization/referral which has a possibility of being deined. I know all of this because when we moved here I couldn't figure out how come my stuff kept getting rejected at tricare, well because when you switch from base to base, the hospital does all that for you and updates DEERS with your new address. But when you don't go to a base hospital ( like me we are prime remote) you have to do it yourself. Which also means that your whole family, in this case you and your DD, would need to be seen in the other area.

I understand how you feel about giving birth at the hospital where you have to go, but you need to think, thats a lot of work to go through to go some place else. Have you toured both facilities that you are using for your options?

If I use the option of using my family's address then it will be a hospital I grew up around, they just built a brand new womens maternity ward and I know several of the staffed nurses, and I would also be able to use an OB who I have known for many years and would be much more willing to listen to my wants and needs.
Here, I have not been happy with ANY of the medical care I have recieved and I di go and look at and speak to the hospital this morning and di not like the looks of it or the comments made by the patients advocate I spoke with there. I wold love to just move back home, but there is no way for me to get out of my lease