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Dad is a WWII and ArmyNG retiree. He gets all his medical care at VAMC and pays co-pays for his meds, but nothing else is charged to him. He recently failed his vision test at the Motor Vehicle office when he went to renew his license, and after further examination at the VA clinic, he was found to have large cataracts. Does VC normally pay for this kind of surgery on a regular basis? I know they do not pay for glasses. I figured one of you would know the answer!

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I think the VA would pay for cataracts, but they have a high threshold for doing it. I would not let a VA doctor operate on my eyes. There are lots of very good eye doctors who take medicare and speak English in the bargain.

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I had a eye exam last week at the VA and my glasses were free. I'm not sure about cataracts but the doctor did say I had started to get cataracts and that they didn't need to be removed yet.

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Dad is a WWII and ArmyNG retiree. He gets all his medical care at VAMC and pays co-pays for his meds, but nothing else is charged to him. He recently failed his vision test at the Motor Vehicle office when he went to renew his license, and after further examination at the VA clinic, he was found to have large cataracts. Does VC normally pay for this kind of surgery on a regular basis? I know they do not pay for glasses. I figured one of you would know the answer!

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Akwidow

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Pete is right about the possibility of a co-pay with the VAMC and they do, do cataract surgery. However, if he is retired Nat.Guard he should be drawing retired pay(?). Also, if military retiree--probably has TriCare thru military retired system. If he has Tricare in addition to Medicare, I would think the two should pretty much cover the cost of cataract surgery at private hospital.

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Yes the va does cataract surgery, but don't let them do your dads. I speak form experinece I am in the middle of a Federal tort claim due to damage due to my eye during surgery. If your dad has other means then go that route. The va will supply eye glasses if rated 10% or more.

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I went with my parents to the local VA clinic, and got signed on as safe to talk to about Dad's medical records. It turns out the cataracts were so big the eye doc could not see his retina's; Doc was going to go back to his old records of my dad as he was his doctor in private practice. It turns out the eye doc was and is someone I know and has been doing cataract surgery around here for years. He is an arrogant a**, but a good doctor.

If he is in fact contracted by VA to do dad's surgery, then we are good.

It was quite an exerience - Dad can hardly see and is going deaf, and Mom IS deaf and can hardly see, and I had to shout at all of them so they cound hear me.... ;) we could have been a ring in the circus if anybody had been in the waiting room to watch....

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