VA plans to outsource all compensation and pension exams

[Buck52]

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/va-plans-to-outsource-all-compensation-and-pension-exams-1.649356

[Buck52]

With All Due Respect pacmanx1  your taking GB post a little to strong or have a misconception as to what he meant by the word ''LUCK'' / ''LUCKY''

Look at this way

Say three Veterans file their claims for whatever & they have their C&P Exams  with different C&P Examiners ,they all use the proper CFR 38 Regs  that you mention  and all three Veterans have all their evidence needed to be service connected  and the proper rating given , 2 out these three Veterans were approved  and one was denied...and remember they all had their evidence needed to be approved (but different examiners) but this one Veteran that was denied  when he had all his evidence too, Well  He  was not so lucky.  that's what GB meant by being lucky or get lucky  I can see what he meant by that.  the other two Veterans were yes Lucky  ...WHY? because simply put their examiners listen to them read their evidence  like an examiner is suppose to do.  the one Veteran that was denied was no so ''Lucky'' His examiner apparently did not read his records or listen to him. ect,,,,,ect,,,

Unfortunately this does happen quite a bit.

[Mr cue]

Yea I believe this is going to be bad pay to denied your disability what else could it be why pay someone for something that been in house for so many years I never had a problem get my comp exam.

Shit I call an even got it put in at hospital quicker smh

Ppl not paying this any attention 

[Carl the Engineer]

Well this is very interesting. 

I live in the sticks, and I travel an hour and a half to my VA Hospital for my "in-house" C&P exams.  I'm not too sure who around my area they would even contract with? 

And the billing will be horrendous.  Took the VA over a year and a half to pay for my pre-approved civilian doctor eye exam.  Got a bill in the mail every month for 18 months.

One day they stopped,

Hamslice

 

[GBArmy]

Hamslice In your situation, it could turn out favorably, maybe. The VA subcontractors, LHI, QRC, and VES in turn train and hire their own subcontractors to do the work all over the US and even world-wide, like the Philippines, etc. So by their very own lack of exposure to the VA mind set, you may actually end up with medical docs who make actual pro-veteran evals based on medical evidence, nothing else. Of course, it could also work the opposite way too. In any case, we don't have much choice, do we?

[VietNamVet1969]

GBArmy, you are correct in that we do not have a choice. If we miss the appointment our evals could be yanked and rating could cease. I have one scheduled. Mine will make or break a temp rating, so I'll find out soon. Hoping for good news and can't see how it won't be but I have been surprised before. I do believe that the outside vendors are sworn to do honest evals, on the other hand, the best way to keep evals coming in, is to maintain a constant flow of those who need more evals, rather than those who are screened out of the process. Maybe that's too business oriented, but like I said, I'll find out before long.

[GBArmy]

Good luck brother. If you are rated at 100% this isn't your first rodeo. Like I always say, "you don't lose until you quit trying."