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The title of this web page is "VA Health Care Eligibility & Enrollment: Beneficiary Travel Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ." See http://www4.va.gov/healtheligibility/Library/FAQs/BeneTravelFAQ.asp, accessed December 9, 2009.
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Can mileage reimbursement or special mode transport be withheld from a travel eligible veteran? Travel benefits may be withheld when it is clinically determined that travel allowance would be counterproductive to care, treatment, or therapy being provided and such determination is recorded in the patient's medical record.
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Special mode DOES NOT include public transportation such as taxi, bus, subway, train, airplane, or privately owned conveyance with special adaptive equipment and/or capable of transporting disabled persons.
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When a veteran does not meet eligibility for Beneficiary Travel, other sources, including the DAV network, family and community should be aggressively pursued. VA Form 3068, "Reduced Rate transportation" is also available for field use.
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This includes mileage and special mode of transportation.
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Should a veteran refuse to provide this information, they are only authorized travel to the nearest VA facility that can provide the required care, not necessarily where the veteran chooses to seek care or treatment. If another VA facility is closer to the veteran's actual residence and that VA facility can provide the care, then Travel reimbursement will only be to that point.
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Veterans in a CNH at private expense must meet eligibility requirements for VA payment of non-VA emergency care as well as Beneficiary Travel in order to receive transport at VA expense. What authority does VA have to transport veterans in emergency situations?
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Such items should be requested and authorized in advance of travel. Reimbursement should not be provided solely because the veteran chooses to stop or take a less direct route to the VA facility.
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How should Beneficiary Travel at CBOCs or other outlying VA facilities be handled when there isn't a Travel Office or agent cashier agent cashier on station? Each "parent" facility must develop local guidelines in order to provide Beneficiary Travel benefits to eligible veterans at remote facilities under their jurisdiction.
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With a Special Mode of Transportation: For Beneficiary Travel that includes a special mode of transportation, a claimant must apply for payment of Beneficiary Travel and obtain approval from VA prior to travel. Emergency treatment: If there has been an emergency treatment and the claimant applies for payment of Beneficiary Travel (without prior approval)
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patients shall be provided mileage reimbursement in the same manner as other travel eligible veterans when they have a scheduled health care appointment on the same day they are working. As always, in order to qualify the veteran must meet Beneficiary Travel eligibility.
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Such persons must provide a receipt to indicate an incurred expense and to receive reimbursement. Veterans who take non-pay transportation such as DAV transportation, VA Network transportation systems or other no-cost city, state, or area systems are not incurring cost and therefore are not entitled to Beneficiary Travel reimbursement.
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