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.
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.
- Divine Grace - Cavite
- Manila Doctors – United Nations Avenue
- Metro Psychiatry Facility – Pasig
- Sacred Heart - Angeles
- The Medical City – Clark
- The Medical City – Iloilo
- Lorma Medical City – La Union
- Baypointe Hospital – Olongapo
- St. Luke’s, Quezon City
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.
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Received a reply from the VA Manila. If you still want to receive your meds from them you still have to have an annual visit. I will in all probability use my Tricare. I read the FMP fact sheets and did not get all of the answers I sought, so I sent them an email with questions. When and if they answer them I will post.
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According to a VA rep I spoke with today the foreign medical program(FMP) is going into effect soon. They are waiting for notification from Washington. Also they are going to stop reimbursing for travel exspenes. For those who do not want to use the FMP the outpatient clinic will still be open. You will not be reimbursed for travel though. So you can either use the FMP and wait several months to be reimbursed or travel to Manila at your exspense. On top of that according to VFW post 2485 in Angeles anyone who is scheduled for a compensation and pension(C&P) exam through the newly contracted Veterans Examination Service (VES) will have to travel 2 hours north of Angeles City to the only hospital that is approved by VES. In lieu of scheduling a C&P exam throuh VES you can go to a private specialist and have them fill out the disability questionaire form (DBQ) and have them fax it to VA Regional Office in Manila. Just be sure that it includes a medical opinion stating that your condition is either less likely than not, atleast as likely as not or more likely than not a result of a service incurred injury. Claims for disabilities secondary to a service connected disability should also include a medical opinion that the secondary disability was the result of a service connected disability. For obvious reasons a less likely than not opinion will not help getting a service connected disability. So this is how the Trump administration is going to help improve service for the vets in the Philippines. What a crock of sh*t.
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