VA gives veterans a year of uninterrupted private health care for 30 different medical specialties
Veterans will now be able to receive a year of uninterrupted specialty health care outside the Department of Veterans Affairs network without seeking re-authorization, the agency announced. Veterans previously had to get a new referral every three to six months.Veterans previously had to obtain a new referral from their VA doctor every 90 to 180 days to continue receiving many specialty health services at “VA expense,” the agency said.
“This change means better continuity of care, which leads to better health outcomes,” VA Secretary Doug Collins said Monday. The policy change is effective immediately.
When veterans cannot get timely medical appointments at VA clinics or hospitals, they are referred to vendors, which are private doctors in the community.
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I wish that I would start helping all the veterans more and helping all the people who are homeless as veterans stop focusing so much on all these illegal immigrants and all these losers that weren't veterans and that like to just skate off the Medicaid and do nothing take care of veterans first and help them they deserve all our love and attention firsthand! That the illegals go back to their countries and let their countries take care of them we can't take care of everybody in this country!
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