What is the three-tiered outpatient co-payment?
• The co-payment will be based on primary care visits ($15), specialty care visits ($50), and no co-payment designations. • Primary Care ($15), A primary care outpatient visit is an episode of care furnished in a primary care clinic that provides health care services. Veterans do not need a referral to access the primary care clinician. • Specialty Care ($50) A specialty care outpatient visit is an episode of care furnished in a clinic that does not provide primary care, and is only provided though a referral. Some examples of specialty care clinic are surgical consultative services, audiology, optometry, cardiology, MRI, CAT scan, Nuclear medicine studies and ambulatory surgery. • Service for which there will be no co- payments; Publicly announced VA public health initiatives (for example: a health fair, etc). An outpatient visit solely consisting of preventive screening and immunizations, (for example: influenza immunization, pneumonococcal immunization, hypertension screening, hepat
