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Overview
VA provides a Medical
Benefits Package, a standard enhanced health benefits
plan available to all enrolled veterans. This plan emphasizes
preventive and primary care, and offers a full range of
outpatient and inpatient services within VA health care
system.
VA maintains an annual enrollment system
to manage the provision of quality hospital and outpatient
medical care and treatment to all enrolled veterans. A priority
system ensures that veterans with service-connected disabilities
and those below the low-income
threshold are able to be enrolled in VA’s health
care system.
VA enrollment allows health care benefits to
become portable throughout the entire VA system. Enrolled
veterans who are traveling or who spend time away from their
primary treatment facility may obtain care at any VA health
care facility across the country without the worry of having
to reapply.
All Veterans are Potentially Eligible
- Eligibility for most veterans’ health care benefits
is based solely on active military service in the Army,
Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard (or Merchant Marines
during WW II), and discharged under other than dishonorable conditions.
- Reservists and National Guard members who were called
to active duty by a Federal Executive Order may qualify
for VA health care benefits. Returning
service members, including Reservists and National
Guard members who served on active duty in a theater of
combat operations have special eligibility for hospital
care, medical services, and nursing home care for two years
following discharge from active duty.
- Health Care eligibility is not just for those who served
in combat.
- Other groups may
be eligible for some health benefits.
- Veteran’s health care is not just for service-connected
injuries or medical conditions.
- Veteran’s health care facilities are not just for
men only. VA offers full-service health care to women
veterans.
Click
here to get started in determining if you are eligible
for VA health care benefits
Click
here for information about VA Co-Pays and Charges
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