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Show 2D Thu Summit County Boo' - Friday, Novomfcor l4. 1997 Enrollment System Health-Cor- e The Wave ha a nev ta enrollment application for any They signed up to defend the nation when Uncle Sam called, now 'veteran who received VAheuiu-b- r. the Salt Lake City VA Medical services since Oct. 1, 1996. Other Center is asking America's veterans veterans sre encouraged to apply for to sign up again, this time for a enrollment for the comprehensive enservices dedicated to diem by the new comprehensive health-car- e the nation's largest hospital system. rollment system offered by enroUmeat inforVeterans Affairs VA health-car- e of Department mation is available at the Salt Lake (VA). The new enrollment system will Gty VA Medical Center by calling 0. insure eligible veterans access to (801) Enrollment Priorities the full range of VA health-car- e services primary care, inpatient A veteran's priority status under and outpatient care, wellness prothe Eligibility Reform Act and VA resource availability will determine grams, pharmacy and specialty clinics. Once enrolled, veterans will no how many veterans will be enrolled longer run a gauntlet of confusing each year. Seven priority groups and inconsistent regulations before have been established to help make those determinations. They include: seeing VA doctors and nurses. 1 The enrollment program is a Group Priority product of The Veteran's Health (Highest Priority)! Veterans conditions Care Eligibility Reform Act of with 1996, which fundamentally changes rated 50 percent or more disabling. how VA decides who receives veterPriority Group 2: Veterans d ans health care. VA began enrolling with conditions veterans this October to make sure rated 30 or 40 percent disability. they understand the new system and Priority Group 3: Former to develop and test the application prisoners of war. Veterans with conditions rated 10 process required for an official Oct or 20 percent disabling; veterans 1, 1998 startup time. "The new rules will enable VA to discharged from active duty for. provide better, more comprehensive compensable conditions; and veterservices to our nation's veterans," ans with special eligibility classifisaid Ted Baxter, spokesman for die cations, as determined by Congress. Salt Lake Gty VA Medical Center. Priority Group 4t Veterans "They will enable us to be make who receive a VA pension plus better decisions about who is eligiwhat VA calls "aid and attendance" ble for care and give them the care or "Housebound" benefits, and vetthey need." After Oct. 1, 1998, erans who have been determined by VA to be "catastrophically" dismost veterans will have to be enabled. rolled in the VA health-car- e system in order to receive treatment. Not Priority Group Si Non servicoconnacted veterans and all veterans receive VA health-car- e services and that will not change. veterans rated xera Veterans must apply to enroll in percent (noncompensaMy) disabled, whose income and net vrarlh are bethe new system. VA resources and low dollar thresholds established by mandated Congressionally priority VA and Congress. groups will determine how many veterans will be enrolled each year. Priority Group 6t All ' Highest enrollment priority will go other eligible veterans who are not for to veterans health conditions result-- ! required to make their care. These include World War ing from military service. During the coming year "test" pe-- " 1 and Mexican Boarder War veterans; veterans receiving care for ex riod, VA will automatically process addrerjtt e-m- ail t edH-orfiadowlin!t.n- et 584-140- service-connect- posure to toxic substances or environmental hazards while in service, and compensable zero percent veterans. service-- connected Priority Group 7 (lowest priority): Non service-connect- ed veterans and noncompensable (zero veterans percent) service-connectwith income and net worth above levela set by VA and Congress who agree to pay certain specified copayments. Veterans in the highest priority categories are virtually assured enrollment. Those in die lowest prior ed ity group will only be enrolled if VA has sufficient resources for their care. In order to better determine how many veterans are likely to enroll in VA' s ne$ plan, and what the distribution between categories is likely to be, She Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will begin a test enrollment effort, beginning in October. Th2 test, which will be conducted throughout the United States will also help planners fine tune the way enrollments will be handled next year when enrollment goes into effert ed service-connecte- Investments Calm Gold 80vsr Bullion P.C.6.S. CsrtlfM Coins Supplies Free Appraiser Jewelry Wo Buy end Sell CENTER Howard & Toni (801)226-1291 Gurney 5 102 Sol SUM Oram, Uah 84058 Hours; MF, 10 5:30 -- NICtrSTIRES Now is the timei.. 8NOW TIRE CHANGE OVER Envelopes Menus Invoices I what you need and at a fair price," 338 N.W. 8TATE ROAD AMERICAN FORK 0 i jut . 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