Veteran Access to VA Outpatient Care and Related Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, July 21, 1993

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Page 82 - BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS REGARDING THE PROVISION OF OUTPATIENT SERVICES AT VA MEDICAL FACILITIES JULY 21, 1993 Mr.
Page 82 - I will be pleased to respond to any questions you or the Subcommittee members may have.
Page 111 - Veterans who receive increased pension or compensation based on the need for regular aid and attendance of another person, or who are permanently housebound. 4. VA may furnish outpatient care to prevent the need for hospitalization, to prepare for hospitalization, or for a condition for which the veteran was hospitalized to: • 0-20 percent service-connected disabled veterans.
Page 111 - Veterans who have suffered an injury as a result of VA hospitalization, for that condition only. 2. VA must furnish outpatient care for any condition to prevent the need for hospitalization, to prepare for hospitalization or to complete treatment after hospital care, nursing-home care or domiciliary care to: • 30-40 percent service-connected disabled veterans. • Veterans whose annual income is not greater than the maximum annual pension rate of a veteran in need of regular aid and attendance....
Page 3 - David P. Baine, Director, Federal Health Care Delivery Issues, Human Resources Division, US General Accounting Office, Before the Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate (GAO/T-HRD-91-11, Mar.
Page 59 - For example, if one veteran we profiled had visited all 19 medical centers, he would have been determined eligible by 10 centers but ineligible by 9 others. Officials at VA's headquarters and medical centers agreed that the criterion to obviate the need for hospital admission is an ambiguous and inadequately defined concept. A headquarters official stated that because the term has no clinical meaning, its definition can vary among physicians or even with the same physician. A medical center official...
Page 111 - For pre-bed or post-hospital care or care to obviate the need for hospitalization for any condition: veterans rated 30 or 40 percent service-connected disabled; with annual income not exceeding the pension rate of a veteran in need of regular aid and attendance, and those with incomes exceeding such pension rate and agreeing to make co-payments — on a facilities and resources available basis. For outpatient medical services for any condition, furnished on an outpatient or ambulatory basis: former...
Page 3 - Without objection, your statement will be included in its entirety in the record, and you may proceed in any manner you desire.
Page 112 - Where any veteran shall have suffered an injury, or an aggravation of an injury, as the result of hospitalization, medical or surgical treatment, or the pursuit of a course of vocational rehabilitation under chapter 31 of this title, awarded him under any of the laws administered by the Veterans...
Page 58 - Efforts to Obtain Outpatient Care From Alternative Sources (GAO/HRD-93-123, June 30, 1993).

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