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Consult reports are required to be returned to the primary care manager (PCM) or initiating provider within 10 working days of the patient encounter. For routine specialty referrals for initial office visits and all outpatient and inpatient services, you must provide complete and legible documentation for these reports to be accurate and useful.
Returning consult reports, operative reports and discharge summaries to the initiating provider is important for timely follow up and continuity of care. Please be responsive to the request when asked to return a consult report for TRICARE beneficiaries.
Providers who treat TRICARE beneficiaries coming from the local military treatment facility (MTF) may receive a faxed reminder to return a consult report for a recent visit/service. Your office should return the consult report, operative report or discharge summary requested and use the designated fax reminder as the cover sheet. Please use the fax number listed in the upper right corner of the reminder page. This fax number is shown only on the reminder fax to providers for each beneficiary consult return request. This is to avoid having providers send documentation on all other TRICARE beneficiaries.
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