{"id":25173,"date":"2019-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/va-may-have-to-pay-billions-for-veterans-emergency-care-claims\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:00:00","slug":"va-may-have-to-pay-billions-for-veterans-emergency-care-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/va-may-have-to-pay-billions-for-veterans-emergency-care-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"VA May Have to Pay Billions for Veterans&#8217; Emergency Care Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Law says VA must pay emergency medical expenses if they are not covered by private insurance<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Sept. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; U.S. veterans could receive billions of dollars in denied claims for out-of-pocket emergency care costs at non-VA facilities after a federal court ruled that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly denied the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law requires the VA to pay those emergency medical expenses if they are not covered by private insurance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims said Monday, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The VA does not have to cover copayments in such cases, the court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The VA said Wednesday that it is reviewing the decision, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/34683430c255440484bbdb3fde985a94\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law says VA must pay emergency medical expenses if they are not covered by private insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}