Fee-basis & Mandatory Records Release

[purple]

I received a call today from a lady at the Dayton VAMC who told me that it is mandatory that I sign Records Releases for cardiology and gyn before she will authorize any payments on any bills...even the bills that have already taken place!!

WTF!!!

In her msg (which was quite nasty), she said that if I refuse, I will have to pay all of these bills out of my own pocket!!

Now, I don't have a problem (obviously) with the civilian docs having my VA medical records....however, we all know how our VA records are. Within the medical records there are mental health records...how do I know what is being sent to them? I don't. I don't trust them to send only cardiology records or only Gyn records.....and......I've never had to do this before when I've seen civilian docs.

Anyone else been threatened like this?

[LarryJ]

I think that what they are "trying" to say is that the Stupid person at the VA will contact the outside gyn and the outside gyn will contact you for your appointment.

And, then they are saying that the outside gyn will provide you with all the labs, etc, that he/she wants done, and that you will then bring the outside gyn's requirements for labs, x-rays, etc, to the VA for the VA to complete.

Then you need to contact your VA Primary doc.

convoluted care, but, care, nonetheless.