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January 20, 1999
The Facts About Enrollment
for VA Health Care
and
Application Form
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Veterans and their families have raised questions about new
eligibility and enrollment rules for VA health care. Specifically,
misinformation has led some veterans to wonder whether they will
lose their eligibility for VA health-care services if they are
not enrolled at VA by October 1, 1998. The answer is NO, they
will not lose their eligibility, but in most cases, they do need
to apply for enrollment by contacting their nearest VA medical
center.
- VA health-care eligibility reform was authorized by Congress
and signed into law by the President in October 1996. The new
law required VA to manage veterans' access to VA care by using
a system of enrollment priorities. There are seven enrollment
priority groups, and VA will enroll veterans from as many of
the groups as possible.
- Veterans can apply for enrollment AT ANY TIME that they come
to a VA medical facility for care, even AFTER the trial enrollment
period, which ends on October 1, 1998.
- For details about the seven enrollment priority groups, and
enrollment in general, please refer to the VA home page subject,
"Benefits" and under the section "Benefits in
Detail," go to the link "Eligibility Reform Page."
(http://www.va.gov/health/elig)
- VA will automatically process an application for any veteran
who has received VA health care since October 1996. To receive
information about individual eligibility, a veteran should contact
the nearest VA medical center. Its address and telephone number
are listed on our home page under "Facilities" on the
VA home page. (http://www.va.gov/facilities.htm)
- VA News Releases:
VA to Enroll All Veterans Under New
Health Plan September 22, 1998
VA Clarifies Rules For Health-Care
Enrollment March 11, 1998
- For other questions and e-mail contacts, go to the bottom
of the VA home page and click on the icon "Putting Customers
First" to go to the "1-Stop Customer Service"
page. (http://www.va.gov/customer/consumer.htm)
Pilot Test of Online Submission
Process
(For Upstate New York
or San Francisco Areas)
For veterans who wish to use the medical centers
in
VA Healthcare Network
Upstate New York or the San
Francisco VAMC, we are offering a new service--fill out
and submit the VA Form
10-10 EZ online. Currently, only veterans seeking
services at these locations should use this process. Additional
medical centers will be available soon.
Yes, all the data will be unreadable (encrypted) as it passes across the Internet
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