If a veteran only has VA medical benefits, can he go outside and have services billed to VA?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

I am a Military Retiree, and a Service Connected Veteran -- and there is no easy answer to this question.

IF you have a legitimate Emergency (and need treatment immediately) then YES, you can go get treatment and have it billed back to the VA (but there are also conditions that it must be related to your service connected condition).

Then .. there is the situation where a Veteran is Service Connected and is referred to outside sources for Treatment ... and that is then scheduled through your Primary Care Physician's Consults and Scheduling Services.

Answer 3

no the va don,t like for you to go to outside services.My husband is a veteren but he draws social security disability,but he also uses the va hospital.the Va doesnt do that well in many states for their veterans so my husband has to go outside of the va for treatments.I will tell you thishowever and they really don,t like for you to know this ,but if a veteran does go to outside doctors and has to pay for his medicine,you can get a form from Va and you can fill the form out with all your out of pocket expenses that you have to spend on doctors,medicine and fuel to make those trips,and the va has to remburse you,but they want tell you about it but they will....if this person is not on 100% from va they can usually get on ss disability if they are disabled,that way they will put you an medicare and age doesnt matter...My husband was in vietnam and at that time va wasn,t taking the voetnam vets,so they put him on ss disability at age 50,and he had medicare,and later when va started taking the vietnam vets he started going to them too...

Answer 4

Sure, but the VA isn't going to pay them.

Answer 5

yes,but it is really hard. you must fill out lots of aplications, and give them every personal deatail about the veteran. it takes a while , but it is possible.