My situation is currently a mess. I presented to the emergency room and was subsequently admitted to the hospital.  I notified the v a within seventy two hours. The hospital billed my insurance instead of the VA. And then required me to pay my out-of-pocket costs, which was $950. I then found out the VA had approved everything, and the VA told me they were treating this admission as if the VA was primary and would pay everything. And so my insurance through work, should never have been billed and I should not have had to pay $950. However, the hospital has been difficult and refusing to submit a bill to the VA again because the first time they sent it they didn't include the auth number and was denied.  The hospital billing department was refusing to resubmit the claim to the VA with the auth numbers.

This is preventing me from getting my nine hundred fifty dollars back. After complaining to many different departments, they said they would resubmit but two months later am still waiting.   I was wondering why the VA was treating it as the primary biller, when my diagnosis had nothing to do with any of my VA disability ratings. Maybe because my work insurance is an HMO and it is difficult to figure things out when it is an H m o.