Posted on May 9, 2020
Can the VA refuse to treat a 100% service-connected veteran citing their case as "too complex," and also refuse to outsource them for care?
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I have a pretty 'complicated' medical case but the VA continues to refuse at times to even consult with me despite internal VA referrals for the consults. They also refuse to refer me to anyone who possibly CAN help-- or the Mission Act options don't have any providers for the care needed within hours of me. Then they refuse to cover many of the meds that outside specialists suggest, costing me >$3,000 per year out-of-pocket. Is this OK at any level and would anyone have any suggestions for how to get the needed care? This way preceeded COVID-19 issues but continues despite it. I've been told the doctors won't even agree to a telehealth or video health consult at the VA across a few departments and programs. I'd already involved a senator's office a few years back and have made almost no progress. Help, please?
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Have you considered contacting the VA's Office Of Inspector General-VOIG?
Not sure If I can post links here, but I can post the VA Resolution Hot Line number [login to see] .
Let me know If this helps.
Allan
Not sure If I can post links here, but I can post the VA Resolution Hot Line number [login to see] .
Let me know If this helps.
Allan
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No, but it doesn't keep ignorant and/or lazy workers from halting or breaking the system. Start over. Obtain PCP consult to service that can help your problem (Ortho Surgeon). Request community care per Mission Act. DO NOT VOLUNTEER any other information about needed procedure or history of problems. A representative of community care, depending on your demographic area (mine is OmnaCare), will contact you to see if you have someone specific you are requesting to see. Again, DO NOT VOLUNTEER any other information. They should call you back or send a contract to you with provider's name, address, and appointment date and time. Volunteering too much information to these people is like shooting yourself in the foot and then stepping into the water after stirring it with a big stick, waiting to see if you are bitten by a minnow or a piranha.
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They don't have to Refuse. I was sent to Duke University for my Cancer Treatment and paid 10's of thousand's for my treatment then stop in the middle stop paying for a few weeks. Then they start paying again. I had a few 1,000's of unpaid bills that my VA sent me to go to Duke, but did not paid. I spent maybe 100 hours working with Duke and the VA and got some paid, but not all of them. The VA will tell you they will pay the bills but they don't. But I did have just a little over $1,000 paid on it just a few month ago. The IRS toke it out of my taxes. Just think about it. When the VA is willing to send you out to someplace that know what they are doing to fix you and pay for the bill.... Then why when you check into the place they send you, they ask for you to sign a doc saying you will be Sole responsible for the bill if the VA does not pay? Why do we have to sign this form when the VA sent us there?
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The VA will piss on you for anything that isn't coughing or sneezing. They have tried to send me to fifth-rate specialists that even told them they are wrong. Suddenly the notes and opinions will disappear. I've even had to have a court recover my paperwork they've conveniently "misfiled" several times. Buy here pay here schools and affirmative are things you will find there. At some point, you will just stop hearing from them about appointments because you're not simple enough for collecting on the internal clinic billing.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ APPEALS
BOARD OF VETERANS’ APPEALS
P.O. BOX 27063
WASHINGTON DC 20038
[login to see] TOLL/FAX
ARLYN YANOS-TESTMAN [SPOUSE]
FOR:
ANDRE O. TESTMAN
BRGY 29, SAN JUAN,
PASUQUIN
ILOCOS NORTE
PHILIPPINES 2917
[login to see]
RE: RE-APPEAL AID AND ATTENDANCE DECISION:
GROUNDS FOR REQUEST FOR APPEAL:
1. DUE TO MY HUSBANDS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL COMBAT RELATED
CONDITIONS... HE ROAM THE COUNTRY FOR MANY YEARS AS A HOMELESS
PERSON OFF AN ON, TRYING TO ESCAPE THE PAIN THAT HE SUFFERING
AS THE RESILT OF THE TIME HE SPENT IN THE VN WAR. THEREFORE, HE
VISIT MORE THAN TWELVE VA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, AND PRIVATE
HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS SEARCHING FOR HELP.
VA HOSPITALS: TREATMENT FOR:
BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIA PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA PTSD, HYPERTENSION
BALTIMORE MARYLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PERRY POINT MARYLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION, KNEES
TAMPA FLORIDA
X SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA.... ptsd, hernia, flu, hypertension, knees, kidney,
anemia, sleep apnea
X WILMINGTON DELAWARE .... HERNIA INFECTION, REMOVAL OF
BLOCK INTESTINE,MESH REMOVAL,
AND REPLACE INTALLED
PROVIDENCE RI PTSD,STOMACH PAIN, KNEES
HOUSTON TEXAS PTSD
BROOKLYN NEW YORK SPINE, HYPERTENSION
COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA ptsd, pain, knees, spine, sleep apnea
hypertension, intestine pain, anemia,
kidney
MANILA PHILIPPINES hypertension, ptsd, knees,sleep apnea
spine pain, anemia. kidney
X PRIVATE HOSPITALS:
BACARRA MEDICAL CENTER PHILIPPINES ..X KNEES & SPINE PAIN
KAISER HOSPITAL SYSTEM CALIFORNIA SPINE PAIN
PACIFIC CARE HOSPITAL SYSTEM SPINE & KNEES PAIN
SCRIPP HOSPITAL ptsd, spine & knees pain, sleep apnea
[LA JOLLA AND OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA] intestinal pain, kidney
IT IS NOTICE THAT PART OF THE BOARD DECISION WAS BASE PARTICLY ON
INFORMATION, JUST FROM THREE MEDICAL FACILITIES OUT
OF THE MINIMUM FIFTEEN FACILITIES THAT HAD TREATED ANDRE O. TESTMAN, AND IT APPEARS THAT THOSE DOCUMENT WHERE NOT COMPLETEY
RESEARCH THROUGH.
AS TO MY HUSBAND SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY, THE INFORMATION
THAT WAS USED UNDER [DECISION INTRODUCTION] WAS WRONG...
THE CORRECT INFORMATION OF SERVICE ARE AS FOLLOW:
1. ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN AND LEO ORVILLE TESTMAN
ARE BOTH THE SAME PERSON ...
SEE THE FOLLOWING FAX ATTACHMENT :
AIR FORCE DD214
MARINE CORPS DD214 AND DD215N
ANDRE O. TESTMAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE
ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN JOIN THE U.S. AIR FORCE ON 16 JULY 1963,
HE HAD ABSENT HIMSELF FROM HIS POSITION IN THE AIR FORCE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
THE REASON WAS SO THAT HE COULD JOINH THE U.S. MARINE
IF YOU LOOK AT THE ATTACHED AIR FORCE DD214, IN THE BOX THAT SAID
REMARK, IT SAID THE ANDRE ORVILLE WAS NOT IN THE SERVICE OF THE
AIR FORCE FROM 6 APRIL 1967 TO THE DATE OF HIS DISCHARGE 2
8 SEPTEMBER 1969...
DURING THE TIME OF 1967 ANDRE O TESTMAN WAS PREPARING HIMSELF TO ENTER THE MARINE CORPS AS LEO ORVILLE TESTMAN, WHICH ACCOMPLISH ON 15 FEBRUARY 1968. SERVICE IN VIETNAM FROM SEPTEMBER 1968 – OCTOBER 1969. EXIT THE MARINES ON FEBRUARY1970
TO RECOVER FROM WOUNDS, REENLISTED IN 1976-1980.
IN ANDRE O. TESTMAN OWN WORDS, THE MARINES CORPS NOT KNOWING OR
SEEING OR UNDERSTAND THE CHANGE IN ANDRE O. TESTMAN PERSONALITY
DUE TO HIS PTSD...TESTMAN STATED THAT HE WAS LOSING TRACT OF WHO HE
WAS. THAT HE BELIEVE THAT HE WAS TRYING TO EXCAPEIS TRUE IDENITY, BECAUSE WHAT HE WHEN TROUGHT IN THE VN WAR.
SEE FAX ATTACHMENT:
MARINE CORPS DD 214 AND DD 215N
WHY IS THIS PART IMPORTANT?
FROM YOUR DECISION STATEMENT, IT DOES NOT SHOW THAT ANDRE O. TESTMAN SEEN ANY COMBAT ACTION, THEREFORE HAD NO COMBAT WOUNDS WHILE SERVICING IN VIETNAM. THEREFORE, WOULD NOT DESERVSE ANY OTHER MEDICAL SERVIVE/TREATMENT FROM THE VA.
PLEASE READ ANDRE O. TESTMAN STATEMENT TO THE MUSEUM OF PURPLE HEART IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, HOW HE EARN HIS PURPLE HEART .
PLEASE READ ATTACHED FAX STATEMENT OF ANDRE O.. TESTMAN SR
3. THE VA RECORDS BY THE VA ADMINISTRATION STAFF, SHOW ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES AS:
A. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER....
FROM SERVICING IN VIET NAM
B. LUMBAR SPINE DEGENERATIVE CHANGES...
FROM BACK INJURY THAT ACCUR FROM BEING SHOOT DOWN WHEN AN
ENERMY ROCKET IT THE HELICOPTER THAT HE WAS IN, CAUSING THE
COPTER TO FALL 5000 FEET AND CRASHING IN TO A MOUNTAIN .
3
C. CHONDROMALACIA, RIGHT AND LEFT PATELLA...
FROM THE STRAP METAL WHEN THE ROCKET EXPLOSIVE D ...
AND NOW FOR THE LAST EIGHTEEN YEARS HAD TO WARE LEG BRACES
AND USE A CANE [VA HOSPITAL COLUJMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA]
STATE AS A RN, FROM MY TRAINING, THAT IT IS NOTED IN MANY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES AND AMONG MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS THAT PTSD IS A MENTAL CONDITION THAT CAN ALSO CAUSE
MANY PHYSICAL SICKNESS AND DISEASES WHICH CAN HAVE AN A DOMINO
EFFECT ON THE ORGANS IN THE HUMAN BODY...
ALL MY HUSBAND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES ARE PTSD RELATED:
THE STRESS, INSOMNIA, ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS, SYSTEMIC/LOCAL
INFECTION, DIABETES, STOMACH PROBLEMS, BODY PAIN, IMMUNE SYSTEM
DYSFUNCTION...
HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE DRUG THAT HAS BEEN PERSCRIBE FOR HIM:
ATORVASTATIN 40 MG,
DOMPERIDONE,
MONTELUKAST 5 MG,
PREGABALIN 75 MG,
TRAMADOL 50 MG,
ETORICOXIB 90 MG,
IRBESARTAN 150 MG,
AMLODIPINE 10 MG,
CLONAZEPAM 2 MG,
FINASTERIDE 5 MG,
PROZELAX 400 MG,
SOLIFENACIN SUCCINATE 5MG
TERAZOSIN LOTENCIN 2MG
ESCITALOPRAN JOVIA
RIVOTRIL [ CLONOREPATH ]
TADALAFIL [CIALIS] 5MG
4
IF I OR MY ASSISTANCE, AS HIS AID AND ATTENDANCE DO NOT ADMINISTER HIS MED’S, FEED AND BATH HIM, HIS NEEDS WOULD NOT BE DONE.
AT THIS TIME WE NEED HELP. WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD AN ASSISTANCE.
BECAUSE OF THE HOSPITALIZATION TWO TO THREE TIME A YEAR, AND THE COST OF HIS MEDICATIONS.
I WOULD APPRECIATE THE APPEAL BOARD TO DEEPER INTO MY HUSBAND
CASE.
thanks SSgt Zacvke... I will also send a copy of this letter to the POTUS AT THE WITH HOUSE, ALONG WITH A 125 PAGES OF DOCUMENTATION....
BOARD OF VETERANS’ APPEALS
P.O. BOX 27063
WASHINGTON DC 20038
[login to see] TOLL/FAX
ARLYN YANOS-TESTMAN [SPOUSE]
FOR:
ANDRE O. TESTMAN
BRGY 29, SAN JUAN,
PASUQUIN
ILOCOS NORTE
PHILIPPINES 2917
[login to see]
RE: RE-APPEAL AID AND ATTENDANCE DECISION:
GROUNDS FOR REQUEST FOR APPEAL:
1. DUE TO MY HUSBANDS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL COMBAT RELATED
CONDITIONS... HE ROAM THE COUNTRY FOR MANY YEARS AS A HOMELESS
PERSON OFF AN ON, TRYING TO ESCAPE THE PAIN THAT HE SUFFERING
AS THE RESILT OF THE TIME HE SPENT IN THE VN WAR. THEREFORE, HE
VISIT MORE THAN TWELVE VA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, AND PRIVATE
HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS SEARCHING FOR HELP.
VA HOSPITALS: TREATMENT FOR:
BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIA PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA PTSD, HYPERTENSION
BALTIMORE MARYLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PERRY POINT MARYLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION
PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND PTSD, HYPERTENSION, KNEES
TAMPA FLORIDA
X SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA.... ptsd, hernia, flu, hypertension, knees, kidney,
anemia, sleep apnea
X WILMINGTON DELAWARE .... HERNIA INFECTION, REMOVAL OF
BLOCK INTESTINE,MESH REMOVAL,
AND REPLACE INTALLED
PROVIDENCE RI PTSD,STOMACH PAIN, KNEES
HOUSTON TEXAS PTSD
BROOKLYN NEW YORK SPINE, HYPERTENSION
COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA ptsd, pain, knees, spine, sleep apnea
hypertension, intestine pain, anemia,
kidney
MANILA PHILIPPINES hypertension, ptsd, knees,sleep apnea
spine pain, anemia. kidney
X PRIVATE HOSPITALS:
BACARRA MEDICAL CENTER PHILIPPINES ..X KNEES & SPINE PAIN
KAISER HOSPITAL SYSTEM CALIFORNIA SPINE PAIN
PACIFIC CARE HOSPITAL SYSTEM SPINE & KNEES PAIN
SCRIPP HOSPITAL ptsd, spine & knees pain, sleep apnea
[LA JOLLA AND OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA] intestinal pain, kidney
IT IS NOTICE THAT PART OF THE BOARD DECISION WAS BASE PARTICLY ON
INFORMATION, JUST FROM THREE MEDICAL FACILITIES OUT
OF THE MINIMUM FIFTEEN FACILITIES THAT HAD TREATED ANDRE O. TESTMAN, AND IT APPEARS THAT THOSE DOCUMENT WHERE NOT COMPLETEY
RESEARCH THROUGH.
AS TO MY HUSBAND SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY, THE INFORMATION
THAT WAS USED UNDER [DECISION INTRODUCTION] WAS WRONG...
THE CORRECT INFORMATION OF SERVICE ARE AS FOLLOW:
1. ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN AND LEO ORVILLE TESTMAN
ARE BOTH THE SAME PERSON ...
SEE THE FOLLOWING FAX ATTACHMENT :
AIR FORCE DD214
MARINE CORPS DD214 AND DD215N
ANDRE O. TESTMAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE
ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN JOIN THE U.S. AIR FORCE ON 16 JULY 1963,
HE HAD ABSENT HIMSELF FROM HIS POSITION IN THE AIR FORCE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
THE REASON WAS SO THAT HE COULD JOINH THE U.S. MARINE
IF YOU LOOK AT THE ATTACHED AIR FORCE DD214, IN THE BOX THAT SAID
REMARK, IT SAID THE ANDRE ORVILLE WAS NOT IN THE SERVICE OF THE
AIR FORCE FROM 6 APRIL 1967 TO THE DATE OF HIS DISCHARGE 2
8 SEPTEMBER 1969...
DURING THE TIME OF 1967 ANDRE O TESTMAN WAS PREPARING HIMSELF TO ENTER THE MARINE CORPS AS LEO ORVILLE TESTMAN, WHICH ACCOMPLISH ON 15 FEBRUARY 1968. SERVICE IN VIETNAM FROM SEPTEMBER 1968 – OCTOBER 1969. EXIT THE MARINES ON FEBRUARY1970
TO RECOVER FROM WOUNDS, REENLISTED IN 1976-1980.
IN ANDRE O. TESTMAN OWN WORDS, THE MARINES CORPS NOT KNOWING OR
SEEING OR UNDERSTAND THE CHANGE IN ANDRE O. TESTMAN PERSONALITY
DUE TO HIS PTSD...TESTMAN STATED THAT HE WAS LOSING TRACT OF WHO HE
WAS. THAT HE BELIEVE THAT HE WAS TRYING TO EXCAPEIS TRUE IDENITY, BECAUSE WHAT HE WHEN TROUGHT IN THE VN WAR.
SEE FAX ATTACHMENT:
MARINE CORPS DD 214 AND DD 215N
WHY IS THIS PART IMPORTANT?
FROM YOUR DECISION STATEMENT, IT DOES NOT SHOW THAT ANDRE O. TESTMAN SEEN ANY COMBAT ACTION, THEREFORE HAD NO COMBAT WOUNDS WHILE SERVICING IN VIETNAM. THEREFORE, WOULD NOT DESERVSE ANY OTHER MEDICAL SERVIVE/TREATMENT FROM THE VA.
PLEASE READ ANDRE O. TESTMAN STATEMENT TO THE MUSEUM OF PURPLE HEART IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, HOW HE EARN HIS PURPLE HEART .
PLEASE READ ATTACHED FAX STATEMENT OF ANDRE O.. TESTMAN SR
3. THE VA RECORDS BY THE VA ADMINISTRATION STAFF, SHOW ANDRE ORVILLE TESTMAN SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES AS:
A. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER....
FROM SERVICING IN VIET NAM
B. LUMBAR SPINE DEGENERATIVE CHANGES...
FROM BACK INJURY THAT ACCUR FROM BEING SHOOT DOWN WHEN AN
ENERMY ROCKET IT THE HELICOPTER THAT HE WAS IN, CAUSING THE
COPTER TO FALL 5000 FEET AND CRASHING IN TO A MOUNTAIN .
3
C. CHONDROMALACIA, RIGHT AND LEFT PATELLA...
FROM THE STRAP METAL WHEN THE ROCKET EXPLOSIVE D ...
AND NOW FOR THE LAST EIGHTEEN YEARS HAD TO WARE LEG BRACES
AND USE A CANE [VA HOSPITAL COLUJMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA]
STATE AS A RN, FROM MY TRAINING, THAT IT IS NOTED IN MANY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES AND AMONG MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS THAT PTSD IS A MENTAL CONDITION THAT CAN ALSO CAUSE
MANY PHYSICAL SICKNESS AND DISEASES WHICH CAN HAVE AN A DOMINO
EFFECT ON THE ORGANS IN THE HUMAN BODY...
ALL MY HUSBAND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES ARE PTSD RELATED:
THE STRESS, INSOMNIA, ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS, SYSTEMIC/LOCAL
INFECTION, DIABETES, STOMACH PROBLEMS, BODY PAIN, IMMUNE SYSTEM
DYSFUNCTION...
HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE DRUG THAT HAS BEEN PERSCRIBE FOR HIM:
ATORVASTATIN 40 MG,
DOMPERIDONE,
MONTELUKAST 5 MG,
PREGABALIN 75 MG,
TRAMADOL 50 MG,
ETORICOXIB 90 MG,
IRBESARTAN 150 MG,
AMLODIPINE 10 MG,
CLONAZEPAM 2 MG,
FINASTERIDE 5 MG,
PROZELAX 400 MG,
SOLIFENACIN SUCCINATE 5MG
TERAZOSIN LOTENCIN 2MG
ESCITALOPRAN JOVIA
RIVOTRIL [ CLONOREPATH ]
TADALAFIL [CIALIS] 5MG
4
IF I OR MY ASSISTANCE, AS HIS AID AND ATTENDANCE DO NOT ADMINISTER HIS MED’S, FEED AND BATH HIM, HIS NEEDS WOULD NOT BE DONE.
AT THIS TIME WE NEED HELP. WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD AN ASSISTANCE.
BECAUSE OF THE HOSPITALIZATION TWO TO THREE TIME A YEAR, AND THE COST OF HIS MEDICATIONS.
I WOULD APPRECIATE THE APPEAL BOARD TO DEEPER INTO MY HUSBAND
CASE.
thanks SSgt Zacvke... I will also send a copy of this letter to the POTUS AT THE WITH HOUSE, ALONG WITH A 125 PAGES OF DOCUMENTATION....
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Remember under the Biden Regime you can get a sex change ... But ya can't get a real injury / illness fixed! Jus Sayin..
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I paid over 1,500 per month for treatments on my back for over 20 years out of pocket, while they gave me $93.00 per month to cover it. I went to (DAV, AM LEGION, VFW and multiple claims reps in VA) they all said nothing i could do and to quit complaining, while in chronic pain from an injury sustained in my first year of service.
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Call your congressional representative, they are home not in Washington, so call his/her local office.
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