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VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York - VISN 2
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Fall 2006
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Working Together for Your Health
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We want you to get the
best care possible. As part
of VA’s comprehensive
health care program, your VA
provider is required to establish and
continually review your treatment
plan, including medications, treatments
and diagnostic tests.
If you’re receiving care from both
a VA provider and a private community
provider, it’s important for your
health and safety that your care from
both providers is coordinated, resulting
in one treatment plan. To do this,
your VA and private community
providers need to communicate.
For this to happen, we need you
to supply your VA provider with copies of the following information
from your private community
provider’s office:
- name, address and phone number
of your community provider
- prescription(s)
- office visit notes supporting the
prescription(s)
- blood work results
- test results
You’ll also need to provide information
about any insurance coverage
you may have. You can bring copies
of this information with you to your
next scheduled VA medical appointment
or have your private community
provider fax this information to
your VA provider. Patient privacy
laws may require you to sign a
release form giving permission for
your information to be shared.
If your private community
provider prescribes a medication,
treatment or diagnostic test you’d
like to fulfill through VA, you must
first get your VA provider’s approval.
It’s your VA provider’s responsibility
to use his or her own clinical judgment
to decide which treatments and
tests are appropriate. Only then can
medications, tests and treatments be
ordered through VA.
VA medications are listed on
the VA Drug List (Formulary),
which covers a broad range of
generic and brand name medications.
Your VA provider will
choose the appropriate medication
for you. If VA medications require
periodic blood work, this will need
to be done at a VA location.
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| Reviewed/Updated Date: January 16, 2007 |
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