Champva Sucks

[purple]

My 17-yr old son just started seeing a chiropractor for back and neck issues and guess who won't pay for any of it????? Oh yes.....ChampVA. They say it falls under the same category as dental & vision and all the other necessary stuff they won't pay for. They do pay for physical therapy; but won't pay for chiro care....how stupid is that???

Now I have to pay for it. On top of these HUGE oral surgery bills that will start rolling in next week when he begins having his implant surgery done when that other kid knocked his tooth out. And no, the parents have never contacted me and I have no way of contacting them...not even sure I want to fight that or have the energy to do it at this point.

Just add something else to my pile.

Oh.....here's another one. The hospital my son was seen at the night he got hit??? Guess who they billed. The VA. Not ChampVA; but the VA. Idiots. Pure idiots. So my son got a nasty-gram from the fee-based office at the Dayton VA asking for HIS DD214!!! LMAO!! He's a Jr in HS! I've called them 3 times and left msgs and no one will return my call. I called the hospital that did the billing and told them the error of their ways-trying to explain the difference in VA vs ChampVA. Should be easy right? OMG no......who hires these idiots to do hospital billing anyway????

I'm beyond my boiling point folks...

[Pete53]

ChampVA is the redheaded step child and almost no one knows who they are. Even when you explain it they say ok copy the insurance card the 800 number an than bill tricare.As far as chiropractor that is really strange cause VA allows that and I know Medicare does also. I would double check. Usually when ChampVA will not pay it is a coding error.

Good Luck

[purple]

I just got off the phone with a ChampVA weenie and that's what he told me. I'm still going to check their website.

And sure enough; it's in there as not a covered service.

Now I'm off to write my elected officials.

ChampVA would pay for physical therapy that would cost 10 times as much and not work, but not pay for chiropractic treatment that is so much cheaper and so much more effective. Sure...makes sense to me!!

Idiots.

Edited February 5, 2009 by purple

[windy city]

Not to sound rude but how much do you pay for champva that last time my family used champva it was free. If you do not like it than do not use it I am grateful for what the va has done for me and my family.

I just got off the phone with a ChampVA weenie and that's what he told me. I'm still going to check their website.

And sure enough; it's in there as not a covered service.

Now I'm off to write my elected officials.

ChampVA would pay for physical therapy that would cost 10 times as much and not work, but not pay for chiropractic treatment that is so much cheaper and so much more effective. Sure...makes sense to me!!

Idiots.

[Philip Rogers]

ChampVA doesn't pay for witch doctors, either, whom I feel are much the same. Personally I believe they are a fraud but there are those that believe in them. The one I used helped me w/my back. The strain was lightened after each visit as my wallet was lighter and I felt better for about 20 minutes, after each visit. jmo

pr

I just got off the phone with a ChampVA weenie and that's what he told me. I'm still going to check their website.

And sure enough; it's in there as not a covered service.

Now I'm off to write my elected officials.

ChampVA would pay for physical therapy that would cost 10 times as much and not work, but not pay for chiropractic treatment that is so much cheaper and so much more effective. Sure...makes sense to me!!

Idiots.

[purple]

Wow....the two of you are really supportive and helpful.

First to windycity....do you know what I "pay" for ChampVA? I pay with my freakin' life OK! I'm no longer able to work; not my choice. This is all the insurance I have for my kids.

As to you PR....I've come to expect nothing less....and that's truly sad. I've been seeing this chiro-doc for several months now following a nasty car accident and he has helped me greatly!

What happened to vets helping vets on here??

[carlie]

purple, Chill a little , no one is attacking you here,they are just posting information and

their opinions.

carlie