Clear Clinical Evidence to Secure Your Patients' VA Benefits
As a treating therapist, you focus on your patients’ long-term healing, trauma recovery, and psychological stability. But when a veteran client needs specialized medical documentation to win their VA disability rating or prove a service connection, drafting these complex legal-medical reports can pull you away from your clinical practice.
VMHA is your trusted clinical partner. We specialize exclusively in the objective medical-legal evaluation side of the VA claims process. We write the independent forensic assessments your clients need to secure their disability compensation, allowing you to protect your therapeutic boundaries and keep your focus entirely on their ongoing care.
The VMHA Advantage:
Why Treating Clinicians Protect Their Patients by Partnering with VMHA
The VA rejects thousands of standard treating doctor letters because they lack the specific, technical legal language required by rating specialists. Our internal team of licensed, doctoral-level psychologists understands the language the VA is looking for and knows how to document veterans’ functional impairment in order to best advocate for accurate benefits. We bring uncompromising quality to every report, mapping clinical symptoms directly to the strict criteria in 38 CFR § 4.130.
We protect your veterans from financial exploitation. Under our absolute transparency model, we screen to ensure veterans are a good fit for our service before we sign on with them. If we do not believe we can ethically support a nexus statement or a benefit increase, we tell the veteran immediately and do not take on their case.
We protect your veterans from financial exploitation. Under our absolute transparency model, we screen to ensure veterans are a good fit for our service before we sign on with them. If we do not believe we can ethically support a nexus statement or a benefit increase, we tell the veteran immediately and do not take on their case.
As a therapist, you are intimately familiar with your veteran clients’ functional impairments; however, you may not feel comfortable providing an opinion about the level of VA benefits appropriate for your client, if you are not knowledgeable about that space. You may also want to keep this topic separate from the therapeutic relationship, as complications could arise if, for example, you do not feel you can advocate for the level of benefits the veteran desires. VMHA can partner with you and serve as the veteran’s benefits advocate, while you focus on the therapeutic relationship.
Let us handle the medical evidence while you manage the healing. Partner with an organization built on ethical advocacy and uncompromising clinical quality.
