The White Falcon - 24.10.1980, Blaðsíða 2

Page 2 The White Falcon October 24, 1980
Energy Awareness Week.
The Secretary of the Navy has designated Oct. 27 - Nov. 2 Navy Em
Awareness Week. The theme for this year, Save Energy Today...Protect
Tomorrow, highlights the critical need for action now to guard Navy Readi-
ness and National Security in the future. Turn to pages six and seven for
tips on how you can save energy.
LMET course.
The Navy has begun including attendance at the two-week Leadership
and Management Education and Training (LMET) course in PCS orders for all
E-5's en route to fleet units. LMET attendance will be at one of eight
CONUS LMET sites or Pearl Harbor for personnel transferring to units home-
ported in Hawaii.
The inclusion of E-5's in the course during Fiscal Year 81 marks
another step in continuing development efforts to provide LMET to person-
nel en route to key fleet billets. LMET courses are now available for E-5
through 0-6 personnel.
Voting privileges. . .
In a memorandum stressing voting responsibilities, Admiral Hayward,
Chief of Naval Operations, told Navy leaders the right to vote is one of
the most precious privileges and important duties citizens have.
"Although we are serving our country while in the Navy, our respon-
sibility of citizenship cannot be adequately discharged without genuine
concern for the type of government we have at every level," the CNO said.
Champus. . .._______________________________
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CLAIMS PROCESSING—'
of pieces of paper, and the number increases each year. For example, dur-
ing Fiscal Year 1972, 2.6 million claims were processed, and during Fiscal
Year 1978, almost 4 million claims were processed (not including claims
that had to be returned). This is an increase of over one million claims
or almost 40% in six years.
Roughly, out of every 100 claims received, 26 will have to be return-
ed to the beneficiaries right up front because they are incomplete and 74
will be processed to completion, 66 to be paid and/or applied to the fis-
cal year outpatient deductible and 8 to be rejected. Out of those 74
claims that will be processed to completion, about 65 will be paid or re-
jected within 21 days and 9 will take longer because additional medical or
double coverage information is required or because an eligibility check is
needed.
Ihe processing of CHAMPUS claims inyolves millions
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