If you are a veteran living or visiting abroad, you may be able to receive medical care outside the U.S. We cover your costs for a service-connected condition. Read this page to find out how the Foreign Medical Program (FMP) works.

Eligibility for coverage through FMP

If you get medical care in a country outside the U.S., we can only cover the cost of services that are medically necessary and meet at least one of these descriptions:

• The services are for a VA-rated, service-connected disability (for example, an illness or injury caused—or made worse by—your military service), or 

• The services are for a condition that’s associated with a service-connected disability that we determine makes the disability worse (or “aggravates” it). For example, if you have a service-connected condition of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we may cover the cost of care for non-service-connected depression because the depression can be associated with PTSD and make it worse. Or

• The services are part of care you’re receiving as you participate in our Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program  Here’s what else you should know:

• You can use FMP only for care you get in a foreign country. We won’t cover care or supplies you get in or from the U.S. or U.S. territories.

Learn more at VA.GOV