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Got Approval For Fee Basis To See Doc Outside Of Va

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Okay, I finally got approval to see a doctor outside of the VA and the VA is going to pay for it. I have my C number that fee basis has assigned to me and now I am in the process of finding a doctor who will accept payment from the VA. I am so discouraged because I have to explain the situation of why I have been granted this to the doctors billing office because it is something they haven't dealt with before. What I am running into is that all the billing departments are willing to do is look at their insurance plan list and of course they don't see the VA on there and they come back and tell me NO, they won't accept payment from the VA. All of them are willing to see me and bill me directly and then I can contact the VA for reimbursement, but fee basis told me they will not pay directly to the Veteran, only to a third party. I am just tired, I need to go to the doctor and anyone who knows me know why I WILL NEVER SEE A DOCTOR AT THE VA AGAIN.

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One solution, if you can swing it, is to see the doc, pay the fee and then, when the doc gets paid by the VA, the doc's billing dept/contractor can then reimburse you.

If that is not an option, then see if the VA will simply (yeah, right, like there IS anything simple about dealing with the VA) give your doc's billing office a call and set up the payment. If that doesn't work, then see if the Patient Advocate at the VAMC can help you, or the Fee For Service people.

Just suggestions, none of which may work, but ya never know.

"It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

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You will probably find that Fee Service is very limited. Not all it is cracked up to be but if I am wrong please let us know.

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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Okay, I finally got approval to see a doctor outside of the VA and the VA is going to pay for it. I have my C number that fee basis has assigned to me and now I am in the process of finding a doctor who will accept payment from the VA. I am so discouraged because I have to explain the situation of why I have been granted this to the doctors billing office because it is something they haven't dealt with before. What I am running into is that all the billing departments are willing to do is look at their insurance plan list and of course they don't see the VA on there and they come back and tell me NO, they won't accept payment from the VA. All of them are willing to see me and bill me directly and then I can contact the VA for reimbursement, but fee basis told me they will not pay directly to the Veteran, only to a third party. I am just tired, I need to go to the doctor and anyone who knows me know why I WILL NEVER SEE A DOCTOR AT THE VA AGAIN.

Hey there, Speaking Out. I got fee basis too, I tried to Private message you but box is full. I tell what you need to know here and where to go... Rich

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