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VA announces policy changes to allow emergency care at non-VA facilities

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Female Veterans Affairs Examiner

On January 12, 2012, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a change in regulations regarding payments for emergency care provided to eligible Veterans in non-VA facilities. 

“This provision helps ensure eligible Veterans continue to get the emergency care they need when VA facilities are not available,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.

The new regulation extends VA’s authority to pay for emergency care provided to eligible Veterans at non-VA facilities until the Veterans can be safely transferred to a VA medical facility.

More than 100,000 Veterans are estimated to be affected by the new rules, at a cost of about $44 million annually.

VA operates 121 emergency departments across the country, which provide resuscitative therapy and stabilization in life-threatening situations.  They operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  VA also has 46 urgent care units, which provide care for patients without scheduled appointments who need immediate medical or psychiatric attention.

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For more information about emergency care in non-VA facilities, visit www.nonvacare.va.gov

Veterans wil now be able to get emergency care at non-VA facilities.
Veterans wil now be able to get emergency care at non-VA facilities.
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Belle Mask is a U.S. Navy veteran. She enlisted to become an air traffic controller and went to boot camp at Naval Station Orlando, FL. Her first duty station was the Naval Training Base in Millington, TN, where she finished in the top three in her air traffic control training program. She was...

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