If you're a TRICARE beneficiary and get a referral to an Ocular Trauma Center, you'll follow TRICARE's referralgoes to TRICARE.mil process.
If you're a provider, you'll refer your patient to an OTC when their eye injury:
- Requires attention from a subspecialist not available at the referring location
- Has significant complications
- Requires attention from multiple specialties
- Requires rehabilitation
Patients should not be referred to an OTC for routine ophthalmology or optometry visits.
OTCs provide services to:
- Service members
- Eligible beneficiaries, retirees, and veterans
OTCs provide a centralized comprehensive quality assessment and treatment program for ocular trauma across the Military Health System. Our vision care services coordinators assist with the continuity of care and referral process for the patient.