{"id":152011,"date":"2024-01-17T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152011"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T21:34:16","slug":"the-department-of-veterans-affairs-says-it-is-not-paying-for-illegal-alien-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152011","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Veterans Affairs says it is not paying for illegal alien healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Veterans-Administration-Hospital-in-tropical-setting.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clarified a payment process involving healthcare provided to illegal aliens. The VA pointed to an agreement that has been in place since 2002. This policy\/rule allows the VA to process and pay claims related to ICE, but with funding provided by ICE. Care was provided via ICE, the VA processes claims related to this care, then money provided by ICE is disbursed based on the claim.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From military.com:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VA officials said Thursday that, while taxpayer funding is used to process the health care claims, ICE, not the VA, pays for the work.<\/p>\n<p>And, VA Press Secretary Terrence Hayes added, the VA has never provided health care to migrant detainees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VA does not provide or fund any health care to ICE detainees. There is a 2002 payment processing agreement, in which ICE pays for the FSC to process payments for ICE-funded health care. This involves no more than 10 employees, is fully paid for by ICE, and has been in place for every administration since 2002,&#8221; Hayes said in a statement to Military.com.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement to The New York Post, Tuberville&#8217;s office said the Biden administration was &#8220;playing word games&#8221; and accused the VA of allowing detainees to access its community care network, which provides private health care services to veterans outside VA clinics and medical centers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By definition, that means worse options for our veterans,&#8221; a spokesperson for the senator told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, however, the ICE Health Service Corps, or IHSC, program office is responsible for authorizing health care services for detainees and obtaining providers to deliver their health care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No resources meant for veterans are used as part of this agreement. FSC provides an administrative function for ICE, using ICE funds, that has zero impact on veteran health care or benefits,&#8221; Hayes said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Military.com has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2024\/01\/11\/va-paying-migrant-health-care-agency-says-no-despite-wave-of-political-attacks.html\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clarified a payment process involving healthcare provided to illegal aliens. &hellip; <a title=\"The Department of Veterans Affairs says it is not paying for illegal alien healthcare\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152011\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Department of Veterans Affairs says it is not paying for illegal alien healthcare<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}