<p>Junior arrived home from his sea year, had a great experience. We started running him to the Dentist, eye Dr and the like. Well it seems he picked up an eye infection from his last ship. The ship had contaminated water (they were told not do drink the water or brush their teeth with it) and probably caused the infection. Can we get reimbursed for the Dr cost and the eye drops,
$ 100 for a .5 oz bottle. Anybody have an idea of how this works.
Thanks</p>
<p>Quick question: When you took him to the doctor, did he give them the Academy's address as his "home" address along with KP health services info? I recall a parent once telling of how difficult it was to get it all straightened out as the kid had used his parent's home address. Took like 3 years to get the funds back. I'm joking of course but they said it was a difficult process but they did indeed get reimbursed. Lots of phone calls and paper work to follow I'll bet. Hope the kid is getting better now? Tell him I'm sorry it happened but he now needs to be our case study on how this thing works. He can better serve mankind by letting us have a learning experience here. :) Do let us all know how things turn out.</p>
<p>I would bet that trying to get reimbursed would be more of a pain than the 100 dollars is worth. The key will probably come down to whether this was emergency care. </p>
<p>Just as an aside why would you take him to the dentist and all the other places? Was he having problems? or just a check up? The mids get free dental/medical care at the Academy so I'm not quite sure why you'd have him go to the one at home. </p>
<p>If you son was having eye pain / red eye you could probably try to qualify that as an emergency. If you son is a contact lens wearer then I would bet the water had nothing to do with it and contact lens over use was more likely the culprit. </p>
<p>Overall I would call Patten on Monday and see what they have to say, my guess is it will be difficult at best. One other route you may pursue is reimbursement by the shipping company if the doc related the infection to nonpotable water.</p>