The Seafarers Health and Benefits Plan’s (SHBP) Medical Department is alerting members about a paperwork swap spurred by the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC).
While the process for ordering and scheduling physical exams is unchanged (as are the annual and interval exam schedules), the paperwork will be different effective August 1. That’s because MSC has discontinued using the DD 2807/2808 form. It has been replaced with U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) form 719K.
As reported by Seafarers Plans Administrator Maggie Bowen at the July membership meeting in Piney Point, Maryland:
– The USCG 719K exam paperwork pertaining to the annual physical may be submitted to the National Maritime Center (NMC) for renewal of Coast Guard documents.
– The USCG physical exam will be available to order separately.
– The MSC Supplemental Questionnaire will be added to the paperwork that is sent to the clinic, to meet the agency’s standards. This item must be completed every five years for members up to age 49, and every two years for members ages 50 and older.
Additionally, to assist SIU members with meeting shipping requirements (including MSC standards), a review of recommended vaccines will be performed with each newmember exam, annual exam, and interval exam. Members will be offered any missing vaccines at their respective appointments.
Members who require an MSC shipping clearance must receive all of the recommended vaccines.
Members who do not require an MSC shipping clearance will be offered the same vaccines but may decline any or all, and still receive commercial shipping clearance.
Moreover, members will continue having the option of ordering the “Vaccines Exam” separately. For SIU members who have had a positive PPD skin test and/or TB gold blood test, the chest X-ray will be replaced by the annual TB exposure screening questionnaire.
Finally, SIU members will receive an EKG with their new-member exam and then annually after age 40 or as clinically indicated.
Questions may be directed to [email protected]
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