June Meeting Information

Our June Chapter meeting will be held on Thursday, June 25th at the Gallatin Country Club in Gallatin, TN. We will meet at 6:00 PM and have dinner at 6:30 PM. The cost of the meal will be $17.00 per person. The Gallatin Country Club is located at 1501 East Main Street, Gallatin, TN. Dinner is provided by Larriveries on the Green.

Our menu will include a choice of the following main courses:

Beef Medallions

Cordon Bleu

Lemon-Pepper Grouper

Include with dinner is a Garden Salad, Vegetables appropriate for each main entrée, a Desert Selection, Dinner Rolls, Tea and Coffee.

Guest Speaker: We are pleased to have Mr. Anthony Holt, County Executive Sumner County, as our guest speaker at your June 25th meeting. Mr. Holt will provide remarks about current topics of interest to everyone in Sumner County. Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt was elected to his current office in November 2008 after serving 18 years as a county commissioner from the Gallatin area. He is chief financial officer for the county, oversees facilities management for county buildings and also is responsible for appointments to numerous government committees, boards and commissions. As county executive he represents Sumner County on a variety of Middle Tennessee boards, including the Greater Nashville Regional Council, Regional Transportation Authority, the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday.

TRICARE PRIME Info

This article was taken from the MOAA Legislative Update e-mail that I received.

You Could be Bounced from TRICARE Prime

A new DoD policy aimed at "cleaning up" TRICARE Prime enrollment at military treatment facilities (MTF) could mean some significant changes for many Prime enrollees.
TRICARE has long had established travel access standards to help beneficiaries receive timely health care. The standards require that enrollees shouldn't be assigned a primary care manager (PCM) at a military hospital or clinic that's more than a 30-minute drive from the beneficiary's home address.
As a practical matter, DoD never really enforced that policy. But it will be enforced now.
If they want to continue to be seen in the MTF, current Prime enrollees in the U.S. who live farther away than a 30-minute drive from the MTF will have to request a waiver of the drive-time standard from the MTF commander or the TRICARE Regional Office. Drive times will be determined by a computer program similar to MapQuest. Approved waivers will have to be renewed annually from now on.
Unless they apply for and are granted a waiver before October 1, enrollees who live more than 30 minutes (but less than 40 miles) from the MTF will be assigned a civilian primary care manager closer to their residence. Absent a waiver, those who live more than 40 miles from the MTF will be disenrolled from Prime and revert to TRICARE Standard as of October 1.
TRICARE contractors are mailing letters to all affected beneficiaries, providing detailed instructions on the waiver process.

May Dinner Meeting

Our may meeting was held at Latham's Lighthouse Event Center in Hendersonville. We were pleased to have as our guest speaker, Mrs. Julie Hull, above, along with her husband Stacy from AB Recycle. Stacy and Julie Hull have owned AB Recycle in Hendersonville since October 2008 and began servicing clients in Hendersonville, Southwestern Gallatin and the Sumner County portion of Goodlettsville in November 2008. They provide convenient weekly curbside pickup of Single Stream recyclable materials. Julie provided important information on general facts about recycling, recycling locations and laws in Sumner County. Julie has given presentations to Beautiful Hendersonville, Inc., the Hendersonville Parks Department and a local school.

Below are photographs of Chapter members socializing before dinner.