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My better half is going to start Physical Therapy today. He's 50%, and the PT was ordered by the VA and it's for his SC shoulder condition. Got the Voucher, etc.

My question is, how does he get reimbursed for the Travel? Is there a form the PTherapist should sign for him? Who do we send it to?

Just wanting to know, because he's been authorized for 12 visits and that's going to add up in miles - the PT center is 27 miles one-way from door to door. (I know cause I go there for a non-SC related issue, so no travel for lil' ol' 10% me :o )

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Thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate them.

Yes, he's going to the Physical Therapy on a voucher from his VA doctor. It's for his SC condition and he's 50%.

It's weird what's been said about it having to be more than 50 miles. When we go to the VAMC for anything, I always went and got my Travel for trips to the VA podiatrist for my SC foot condition. That trip was only 20.1 miles one way.

Now my podiatrist has quit working for the VA, so I'm working on getting a Voucher to see her (no podiatrist at the clinic yet). But that's another discussion.

Thanks again!

38 CFR 60.5 states a veteran must travel 50 miles or more to a V.A. health care facility in order to receive temporary lodging.

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Hi Shamrock! Yes your are right, 50 miles or less round trip and you are not entitled to travel. 51 miles and over round trip and you are entitled to travel pay. LOL! The VA system for travel pay is the online website www.mapquest.com. You can easily log on yourself to see the mileage from your house to the VA facility you are going to.

AS for your vet friends that travel 50-70 miles round trip, if it is more than 50 miles it doesn't matter what community they are in it is still over 50 miles and they are entitled to travel pay.

The El Paso travel pay office told me that veteran that are ordinarily eligible for travel pay, that have been referred by a VA physician to another non-VA facility, being a hospital, doctors office, or PT facility is entitled to travel pay if they must travel 51 miles or over round trip. So even if you are to meet someone in there home as long as you are referred by the VA under fee-base care and it is over 25 miles away you get travel.

I am aware that there is a deductible for travel pay. As far as I know the only reference I know of to 50 miles is that under 38 CFR 60.5 a veteran must travel 50 miles or more to a V.A. health care facility in order to be eligible to receive temporary lodging.

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There is no minimum mileage, one must travel, to receive travel pay. The 50 mile thing may have come from rumor based on the old mileage rate of $.11 per mile, which would make a 50 mile trip pay $5.50 and then they deduct the $6.00 deductable. They're paying $.415 per mile now so it's worth pursuing. Your entitled to mileage for travel to and from any VA paid medical care.

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I get the travel to my local doctor and back, I believe its 22 miles one way.

If travel pay window isnt sure they send it up to FEE BASIS then I get a check Oh they must think Im going to to live a little longer fee basis they just renued my card till 2013. Usually it was only 1 or 2 years at a time.

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