Foreign Medical Progam at VA Manila

Hey folks (mostly Lorraine), whether you believe that trump is an idiot or that Obama was a foreign born pinko commie (quite a few), we need to keep POLITICS COMPLETELY OUT of the normal forums, keep it in the crazy rant forum. Most people who uproot themselves from wherever and move thousands of kilometers away aren't known for keeping their mouth shut <grin>...

 

More kool aid, Lorainne???

 

In today's email from the VA Manila:

Veterans in Philippines will not receive health care-related travel expenses, but will not have to repay expenses mistakenly paid.

Since 2008, VA regulations no longer permit the reimbursement of Veterans' travel expenses for health care visits and compensation-and-pension examinations in the Philippines. However, the U.S. VA Manila Outpatient Clinic, in the Philippines, continued to provide such travel payments to the present.

VA announced today that, effective October 1, 2017, it will discontinue providing any travel expenses in the Philippines, and it will not require Veterans to repay travel expenses that were coordinated by the Manila clinic from 2008-2017.

 

Latest Info on the Foreign Medical Program (FMP).

Latest email from the V.A.;

Greetings from the VA Manila Outpatient Clinic

Attached is the FY2018 Fact Sheet that is effective October 1, 2017. The fact sheet provides important information about the medical care and services available to U.S. Veterans living and traveling in the Philippines. To avail of services to treat a rated/adjudicated service connected condition, Veterans are advised to enroll in both the VA Manila Outpatient Clinic and the Foreign Medical Program (FMP).

The VA Outpatient Clinic will continue to provide the same primary and specialty care, medications, laboratory, X-Ray and prosthetics services that are now available in the clinic. The Foreign Medical Program (FMP) will pay or reimburse for all care and services outside of the clinic, e.g., outpatient, inpatient hospitalization, emergency care, diagnostics, dialysis, chemotherapy, etc.

FMP is a world-wide VA program so in addition to obtaining medical care and services in the Philippines, Veterans can also use FMP while living or traveling in other foreign countries. Upon registering in the Foreign Medical Program, the Veteran will receive a “benefits authorization letter”. The authorization letter lists all of the Veterans rated and adjudicated service connected conditions and should be presented to the treating facility/provider when obtaining services or care that are not available in the clinic.

Listed below are hospitals that will accept the FMP “benefits authorization letter” and have agreed to bill FMP for care/services provided to treat the Veteran’s service connected conditions. When the letter is not provided, the Veteran will be expected to pay for services and seek reimbursement from the FMP. The cost of medical care/services that are not service connected must be paid by the Veteran.

1. Divine Grace - Cavite
2. Manila Doctors – United Nations Avenue
3. Metro Psychiatry Facility – Pasig
4. Sacred Heart - Angeles
5. The Medical City – Clark
6. The Medical City – Iloilo
7. Lorma Medical City – La Union
8. Baypointe Hospital – Olongapo
9. St. Luke’s, Quezon City

The clinic staff continue to meet with hospitals to encourage them to transition from VA to FMP. The list above will be updated as facilities are added and/or deleted. The list of participating hospitals is subject to change without notice and the VA is not responsible if the facility above chooses not to participate.

Note that there are NO hospitals in Cebu or Dumaguete that are in the program.
Click the link below to down load the VA's "FY2018 Fact Sheet", on this program.

 

kool aid, what's that?

 

Thanks, I was wondering about this topic when I do get there.