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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[carlie]

There was a 'transfer' involving ambulance but I cant tell if it was VA or private ambulance.

Berta,

Thanks for still trying to help me out.

To my knowledge - it would have to be a private ambulance as

I don't know of and have never heard of VA themselves or any VAMC

that actually had an ambulance service.

I am just like other VBA claimants, so sick and fed up with this

monumental bureaucracy.

I've HADIT with having to learn all the legalities for every flipping benefit that is supposed to be provided.

I've HADIT with some little twits playing gate keeper on the funds that have been allocated for medical care and benefits.

I've HADIT with being provided piss-poor information from employees that are getting regular and adequate pay checks and THEIR benefits.

I've HADIT with being treated like I am less than.

I've HADIT with the VA in just about each agency or department there is.

[john999]

I have decided to limit contact with the VA as much as possible. If there is another way I will choose it. It is a battle to get anything. Of course, learning these details can save you some big money.

[Sidney56]

I've HADIT with some little twits playing gate keeper on the funds that have been allocated for medical care and benefits.

Ditto!! Ditto!! Ditto!!

[carlie]

Well I just tried to submit this via IRIS and it won't even freaking go thru to submit

more freaking BS.

My IRIS email I tried to send.

I need to know how you can help me get an ambulance bill paid.

I am a 90% SC vet and live in Florida and use Bay Pines VAMC.

In Nov 2010 I traveled to St. Louis, while there I was transported by ambulance to John Cochran VAMC and provided with medical care in their ER, this was for a service connected disability.

I received a bill from City of St Louis EMS for the ambulance service, it is dated 11/24/2010.

I contacted them the first week in Dec and they said they would send John Cochran the bill.

I contacted them again in two weeks and was told the bill had not been paid yet.

I called John Cochran Fee Basis on 12-27-2010 and could only leave a voice message.

Someone from Fee Basis called me back and said for me to have St. Louis EMS to resend the bill.

I mailed John Cochran a copy of the bill to try and make sure they got it.

St Louis EMS also faxed another copy of the bill to John Cochran in January and they told me VA has

30 days to respond.

Last week I got another copy of this same bill from St Louis EMS, so I called them and was told the bill still had not been paid. On 4-14-2011 I contacted John Cochran again and was told that this is not handled by Fee Basis and I had to contact Beneficiary Travel and was transferred to that department.

An employee that identified herself as Ann Meeker informed me that they will not pay for this ambulance bill because it was over 30 days old, so it was too late and I have no recourse but to appeal.

How the heck can someone even appeal something that has never been opened to adjudicate ?

It certainly can not be said that I have just disregarded this matter and sat around doing nothing.

Fee Basis did not inform me to contact Beneficiary Travel or to send a copy of this bill to them.

I need your help as this is going to wind up going to collections and this ambulance service was provided to treat and transport me to the closest VAMC for a treatment of an acute exacerbation of a service connected disability.

[68mustang]

Well I just tried to submit this via IRIS and it won't even freaking go thru to submit

more freaking BS.

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. Seems that the old IRIS system was much better and user friendly and I have had problems with the new IRIS system.

68mustang

[Chu Lai69]

Carlie check you PM!!

Well I just tried to submit this via IRIS and it won't even freaking go thru to submit

more freaking BS.

My IRIS email I tried to send.

I need to know how you can help me get an ambulance bill paid.

I am a 90% SC vet and live in Florida and use Bay Pines VAMC.

In Nov 2010 I traveled to St. Louis, while there I was transported by ambulance to John Cochran VAMC and provided with medical care in their ER, this was for a service connected disability.

I received a bill from City of St Louis EMS for the ambulance service, it is dated 11/24/2010.

I contacted them the first week in Dec and they said they would send John Cochran the bill.

I contacted them again in two weeks and was told the bill had not been paid yet.

I called John Cochran Fee Basis on 12-27-2010 and could only leave a voice message.

Someone from Fee Basis called me back and said for me to have St. Louis EMS to resend the bill.

I mailed John Cochran a copy of the bill to try and make sure they got it.

St Louis EMS also faxed another copy of the bill to John Cochran in January and they told me VA has

30 days to respond.

Last week I got another copy of this same bill from St Louis EMS, so I called them and was told the bill still had not been paid. On 4-14-2011 I contacted John Cochran again and was told that this is not handled by Fee Basis and I had to contact Beneficiary Travel and was transferred to that department.

An employee that identified herself as Ann Meeker informed me that they will not pay for this ambulance bill because it was over 30 days old, so it was too late and I have no recourse but to appeal.

How the heck can someone even appeal something that has never been opened to adjudicate ?

It certainly can not be said that I have just disregarded this matter and sat around doing nothing.

Fee Basis did not inform me to contact Beneficiary Travel or to send a copy of this bill to them.

I need your help as this is going to wind up going to collections and this ambulance service was provided to treat and transport me to the closest VAMC for a treatment of an acute exacerbation of a service connected disability.