FMP Care

[wollam11]

I am 100% service disability rated.  
I am traveling to Europe for 17 days at the end of April.  
FMP guidelines say I can get emergency care for conditions that 'aggravate' my primary service disability condition, which is Depression. 
Question then.

Untreated sickness of any kind would reasonably aggravate my depression, therefore I can get treatment for any sickness I develop overseas.  Is this correct?

[Gastone]

Take me to school, "FMP Guidelines?"

Have you determined which Hospitals and Dr's, in the areas your traveling to, will accept VA payment for Emergency services? Any US Military bases near by? Can SC Vets receive treatment at US Military installations?

Semper Fi

 

[wollam11]

Foreign Military Program, the international branch of the VA.
Would it matter what doctors and hospitals are there?  Wouldn't the FMP, under their own rules, pay for any care that addresses my theoretical sickness?  
I'm pretty sure there are no U.S. military bases in Portugal.
SC?  South Carolina?  Not sure what SC stands for.

[wollam11]

Correction:  The Lajes Air Force Base is a NATO base and there is one Air Force unit there.  Military.com says they have a medical group, though I'm not sure if they would treat veterans.  Also, it's 1,500 miles west of the mainland in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

[stinger]

37 minutes ago, wollam11 said:

Foreign Military Program, the international branch of the VA.
Would it matter what doctors and hospitals are there?  Wouldn't the FMP, under their own rules, pay for any care that addresses my theoretical sickness?  
I'm pretty sure there are no U.S. military bases in Portugal.
SC?  South Carolina?  Not sure what SC stands for.

What is a "theoretical" sickness?

[wollam11]

I don't know for sure that I will get sick.  But it's possible.  It's theoretical.

[Berta]

Maybe this will help:

The first link has contact info:

http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/567

"Wouldn't the FMP, under their own rules, pay for any care that addresses my theoretical sickness?"

The FMP criteria for payment is here:.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Foreign+Medical+Program+VA&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8