VA Manila Outpatient Clinic

VA's page for the Manila VA Outpatient Clinic calls it the only VA facility located in a foreign country. It is in the same building as the regional office, on the U.S. Embassy's Seafront Compound at 1501 Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, open Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and closed on major U.S. and Philippine holidays. You have to be enrolled in VA health care, on VA Form 10-10EZ, before you can get appointments, and the same embassy ban on phones, cameras, laptops and recording wearables applies. What it treats. VA's page says the clinic and the Foreign Medical Program provide care only for a VA-rated service-connected disability, or a disability associated with and held to be aggravating one, citing 38 U.S.C. 1724 and 38 C.F.R. 17.35. The statute and the regulation say a little more. 38 U.S.C. 1724(e) lets VA furnish a veteran who has a service-connected disability "such medical services as the Secretary determines to be needed" within the limits of a VA clinic in the Philippines, and 38 C.F.R. 17.35(b), as revised in June 2018, says: "Non-service connected conditions of a veteran who has a service-connected disability may be treated within the limits of the VA outpatient clinic in Manila." A veteran with any service-connected rating who needs care for another condition should ask the clinic rather than take the page's shorter wording as a refusal. A veteran with no service-connected disability is outside both. The clinic lists specialty services that include audiology, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology and gastroenterology, with a note that it does not offer cancer screening, endoscopy, colonoscopy or pancreatitis procedures. Care it does not provide, and care for anyone who lives away from Manila, runs through the Foreign Medical Program, which pays Philippine providers for the same service-connected care. VA's Manila pages direct Foreign Medical Program questions from the Philippines to [email protected]. Citizenship. 38 U.S.C. 1724(b)(2) allows VA to treat a non-citizen veteran's service-connected disability abroad only in the Philippines or Canada, unless VA decides otherwise by regulation, and 38 C.F.R. 17.35(a) now covers any veteran outside the United States without regard to citizenship. A Filipino citizen who served in the U.S. armed forces and holds a service-connected rating is covered. Two older authorities are on the books and are not in use as far as VA's pages show. 38 U.S.C. 1724(c) lets VA furnish hospital care for a non-service-connected disability to a veteran who cannot pay, within the facilities of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City that VA may contract for, and section 1724(d) adds nursing home care after such a stay. The contract authority in section 1732 covered October 1, 1981 to September 30, 1994. VA's Manila pages describe no such arrangement now, so treat these as dormant unless VA tells you otherwise. Commonwealth Army veterans and New Philippine Scouts are not eligible for VA health care in the Philippines on that service alone. 38 U.S.C. 1734 gives them VA hospital, nursing home and medical care on the same terms as other veterans only while they live in the United States as citizens or lawful permanent residents.