Another new one for me, a contracted C&P

[Carl the Engineer]

All,

Another new one for me.  Just got the call from "LHI Care" (?).  All my previous exams have been done at the VA hospital.   

The good.  They are scheduling the C&P thirty minutes from my home.  The place doing the exam is the same place where I had my rehab for my plantar fasciitis a few years back.  

The bad.  I have never done a contracted exam before (so at least I will know what you Veterans are always talking about). 

The ugly.  I am schedule for lower back, spine, shoulder/arm, esophagus and hiatal hernia.  This place had no doctors, just physical therapists, so not too comfortable on the Barrett's Esophagus/Hiatal Hernia part of the exam...

I took a quick search of LHI in Hadit, and see they look like a 50/50 satisfaction rating, LOL. 

Any suggestions are appreciated,

Hamslice

I will be studying the associated DBQ's before hand, and taking copies of my medical records with.

 

 

 

[Buck52]

13 hours ago, brokensoldier244th said:

They don’t just set up a crappy X-ray to delay claims. The site has what it has. They are a contractor not directly related to va so it’s not like vha is going to buy them an X-ray. 

Well when a Veteran travels a good distance and in the back of a LHI C&P EXAM TRUCK   they should have the equip ready/and working...if a person is over weight  or just a big person  it should not matter the X--Ray should have took a good X-RAY

 if it was check and in working condition before the exam   it should have  made good X-RAYS 

NOW BECAUSE OF IT & DID NOT GIVE A GOOD image OF THE X-Ray HE MAY HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER Exam? ANOTHER X-Ray

this prolongs the waiting time for a claim to be approved.  or denied.  one of the two.

I got to go to my VAMC ON THE 3RD AND GET AN ENHANCE MRI  i SURE HOPE THAT MACHINE WORKS BUT THIS   NOT FOR A CLAIM BUT FOR MY HEALTH.

[Carl the Engineer]

Just got on the schedule for x-rays.  At a hospital.  One hour, 25 minutes away, next Tuesday.

Yea,

Hamslice

I'm not really that big.  5'10", 275......, my fighting weight was 225, 2008.

[Buck52]

wow that's a ways to travel  be sure and request your travel pay...

.I think the only time VA will not pay for travel pay is no scheduled appointment  or if you have a DRO Hearing and you have to travel to it....but they are not doing any DRO Hearings anymore  as I understand?

Hope their x-ray machine is working.

[Carl the Engineer]

Buck,

According to the letter from LHI Care, they will pay my travel 30 days out after the appointment and that I do not have to do anything, it is already taken into consideration when I agreed to travel more that 30 miles, and I attend the appointment.

Not sure what they would have done if I said that I would not travel more than 30 miles?

Hamslice

 

 

[Buck52]

5 hours ago, Hamslice said:

Buck,

According to the letter from LHI Care, they will pay my travel 30 days out after the appointment and that I do not have to do anything, it is already taken into consideration when I agreed to travel more that 30 miles, and I attend the appointment.

Not sure what they would have done if I said that I would not travel more than 30 miles?

Hamslice

 

 

This is a new one on me  I always had to file for travel pay no matter how far it was  the letter from QTC  mention I will need to file  for the travel pay application from the VA to recieve the travel pay.

[Buck52]

I guess Anything is better than nothing..