Does the VA Foreign Medical Program cover non-service connected emergency medical care?
According to the below links the VA covers ER care as long as " The claim for payment or reimbursement for the initial evaluation and treatment is for a condition of such a nature that a prudent layperson would have reasonably expected that delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to life or health (this standard would be met if there were an emergency medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) that a prudent layperson who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in placing the health of the individual in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part); "
The FMP says they only cover service-connected conditions regardless of loss of life or limb. This seems like the VA's FMP is not living up to this law and it's obligations to Veterans overseas.
https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/programs/veterans/Emergency_Care.asp
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2009-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2009-title38-vol1-sec17-1002.pdf
According to the below links the VA covers ER care as long as " The claim for payment or reimbursement for the initial evaluation and treatment is for a condition of such a nature that a prudent layperson would have reasonably expected that delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to life or health (this standard would be met if there were an emergency medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) that a prudent layperson who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in placing the health of the individual in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part); "
The FMP says they only cover service-connected conditions regardless of loss of life or limb. This seems like the VA's FMP is not living up to this law and it's obligations to Veterans overseas.
https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/programs/veterans/Emergency_Care.asp
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2009-title38-vol1/pdf/CFR-2009-title38-vol1-sec17-1002.pdf
