Better Call Va Before Going To Emergency Room

[Buck52]

SOME MEDICAL FACILITYS WON'T TAKE VA OR CHAMPVA INSURANCE UNLESS YOU HAVE A SECONDARY INSURANCE COVERAGE!

[john999]

If you are dying are you going to check first to see if the facility will or won't take ChampVA. The law/regs say facility that accepts assignment of medicare must accept ChampVA. I don't have the law right in front of me, but I have read it before since my wife has ChampVA. Damn VA makes me sick quibbling over things like this when a vet's life is at stake.

Now I wonder if your spouse has ChampVA and is using the VA for her care does she have same rights to ER as does a vet? If she goes to ER and tells them she has ChampVA would she be able to get transfer to VA hospital. If all she/he has is ChampVA then she will get billed for what ChampVA does not pay.