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...

[Ricky]

None of the government insurance, tricare, medicare, champva covers chiropractor services. Along with this it was not until recently that priviate insurance began to provide such coverage and it is a hit and miss as to which ones do. So you are not alone my friend.

[purple]

Pete...what do you mean you only pay $50 at the beginning of each year?

What about the co-pays for each Dr visit and hospital visit and test, etc???

[Berta]

I had to use my CHAMPVA pharmacy card for very first time recently-am not on any meds except for a limited antibiotic- and I realised that the VA had sent me -some time ago-a list of the CHAMPVA pharmacys in my area.

Being in a rural part of NY I found that the large TOPS store in Bath, not far from my doctor's office,takes CHAMPVA and my meds were ready as I shopped.

Some of the pharmacys were over 40 minutes or more from me-so I was glad that CHAMPVA sent me this info.

The pharmacy card -it has a bar coded thing and I almost removed that part for it to fit into my credit card ,insurance card part of my purse.

I had to fold that part of it- you cant remove this right?-

[LarryJ]

I had to use my CHAMPVA pharmacy card for very first time recently-am not on any meds except for a limited antibiotic- and I realised that the VA had sent me -some time ago-a list of the CHAMPVA pharmacys in my area.

Being in a rural part of NY I found that the large TOPS store in Bath, not far from my doctor's office,takes CHAMPVA and my meds were ready as I shopped.

Some of the pharmacys were over 40 minutes or more from me-so I was glad that CHAMPVA sent me this info.

The pharmacy card -it has a bar coded thing and I almost removed that part for it to fit into my credit card ,insurance card part of my purse.

I had to fold that part of it- you cant remove this right?-

Yup, they "scan" that barcode.

It's kinda like the tag on your mattress, "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law".

Never could convince my mother to let me take that darned tag off.

She was convinced that she had raised a "ruffian" and a "rebel"............she was right, of course.

[Pete53]

My wife has Medicare and ChampVA. Medicare goes first and than ChampVA so all we make is copays for meds and the 50 dollar ChampVA copay at 1st of year and than Medicare and ChampVA pick up the tab.

[john999]

Does medicare and blue cross pay for chiropractors? I did not think they paid for this stuff. They pay for podiatrist and many of these guys are crooks.