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Veterans may be eligible for mileage reimbursement or special mode transport in association with obtaining VA health care services if the veteran has a service-connected rating of 30 percent or more, or is traveling for treatment of a service-connected condition, receives a VA pension, the veteran's income does not exceed the maximum annual VA ...
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type. This article lists VA ...
Amarillo VA Health Care System – Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center Big Spring: West Texas VA Health Care System – George H. O'Brien Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Dallas: Dallas VA Medical Center Houston: Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center: Kerrville: Kerrville VA Medical Center San Antonio
A single high-end prosthetic can top $100,000, and the GAO found the Veterans Health Administration spent a whopping $15.4 billion on care related to veterans’ prosthetics between 2015 and 2019.
Providing care for non-veteran civilian or military patients in case hospitals overflowed in a crisis was added as a role by Congress in 1982, and became known as the VA's "fourth mission" (besides the three missions of serving veterans through care, research, and training).
Decentralizing the Department of Veterans Affairs — pushing veteran care down to the state level — might be one way to accomplish that goal. Of course, before you lean into that as a solution ...