The Sob's Are Getting To Me Again

[carlie]

SSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!

Nov 2010 - I travel out of state.

End up with ambulance transport to a VAMC.

About 60 days later I get the bill for the ambulance ride.

I call my VAMC - Fee Basis - they say contact fee basis

at the VAMC that I was seen at in a different state.

I contact them they say mail us a copy of the bill.

I do this and also have the ambulance provider fax

them a copy in Jan 2011.

Last week I get another bill from the ambulance provider.

A note on the bill states make arrangements or pay in 30 days

or it goes to collections.

I call them and they say yes we faxed a copy of the bill in January.

I call fee basis again today in at the VAMC the emergency room service was provided in.

Fee Basis now tells me - oh - we don't pay that - you have to talk to Beneficiary Travel

so I get connected to them - and Beneficiary Travel tells me THEY WON'T PAY

because I did not submit this bill within 30 days of the ambulance travel that was provided.

Hell - I din't even get a bill until after 30 days and the VAMC sent me to Fee Basis.

AND THE FREAKING AMBULANCE RIDE TO THE VAMC WAS FOR A SC'D CONDITION !!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm seeing red - blood red !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WAC-Vet75]

Dear VA:

I am an unemployable Veteran. Yes, I have some disabilities that I am receiving compensation for, but those disabilities are not the reason that I am unemployable. The reason I am unemployable is, because I have to spend the majority of my time learning Federal Regulations, learning medical terminology, researching laws/regulations, writing claims, attending C&P exams, writing NODs, filing appeals, etc. It has become a full time job, overtime at that, just trying to be granted that which I am entitled to.

In addition to that full time job of obtaining that which I am legally entitled to, the stress of that job is causing me additional health issues, for which I will have to file claims for. I believe it has become a matter of the power of wills. Unfortunately for me, I am limited as to how many years I will be here, whereas you, the VA, has an unlimited amount of time (barring legislation disbanding you). You were here long before me, and have honed your delayment skills. I have only been here a short time, in comparison, and am still learning how far reaching your delay tactics reach.

I refuse to give up, and will continue to fight the big battle until my dying breath. Hopefully those that follow, will find you weakened, if just a bit.

Sincerely,

A Disabled Veteran

[carlie]

Earlier this week I also tried to send an IRIS request and got errors that there was already another user with the same email address and phone#. Instead of the message I was sending I first had to send a message letting them know what was wrong and then had to wait for a correction to be made in the IRIS system before I could ask my question.

68,

This is the same exact problem I encountered.

[retiredat44]

the va called an ambulance to pick me up from the va clinic because my blood pressure was extremely low, because or portal vein thrombosis and pancreas disease, they took me to a local hospital.. there wer eno beds att eh va hospital for 3 days, so I was left there until a bed was open at the va...

fee basis refused to pay for the 3rd day.. I had to cal and write and tell lVA Fee Basis that I had no choice, I was kept there until they could pick me up and tak eme back tot he VA later that 3rd night,,

Fee Basis finnally paid the rest of the bills... mind you it took one year to get Fee Basis to finally pay al the bills fromt he ambulance and 3 days at the local hospital and diagnostics bills incurred..

meanwhile during that year I had bill collectors after me,,,, and I was constantly send fee basis the copies...

this was on top of just getting out of the hospital, unable to walk... and my intestines were not fully functioning yet... this added more unbearable pressure on my life..

[carlie]

Fee Basis finnally paid the rest of the bills... mind you it took one year to get Fee Basis to finally pay al the bills fromt he ambulance and 3 days at the local hospital and diagnostics bills incurred..

My problem is that Fee Basis is now telling me that their department DOES NOT pay for ambulance bills

and that BENEFICIARY TRAVEL would be the department to pay it.

BENEFICIARY TRAVEL is now telling me the ambulance bill is over 30 days old - and this is the reason

they won't pay it.

In the mean time my impecable FICO score (810) is going to get crunched !

[Wings]

My problem is that Fee Basis is now telling me that their department DOES NOT pay for ambulance bills

and that BENEFICIARY TRAVEL would be the department to pay it.

BENEFICIARY TRAVEL is now telling me the ambulance bill is over 30 days old - and this is the reason

they won't pay it.

In the mean time my impecable FICO score (810) is going to get crunched !

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Carlie, You got 2 fights: one with the Collection Agency, the other with the VA ...

The Collection Agency MUST produce the "original bill" ... You must write to the Collection Agency and DISPUTE the action and DEMAND they produce the original bill from the Ambulence. You MUST dispute the Collection Agency within 30 days. This will stall them from reporting to the Credit Bureau(s). It is Federal Law.

Once you get the original Bill, it will be DATED.

You have to climb the VA chain of command.

Hang in there. Never give up.

HUGS!!! ~Wings

[Philip Rogers]

Carlie, their excuse of past 30 days is BS. I believe the court ruled that any claim received by the VA has been received by the VA, no matter which dept or RO received it. The claimant is not expected to know to which dept the claim should be directed.

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