Veterinary benefits available for those with service dogs

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By George Reilly

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it is piloting a protocol to implement veterinary health benefits for mobility service dogs approved for veterans with a chronic impairment that substantially limits mobility associated with mental health disorders.

VA has been providing veterinary benefits to veterans diagnosed as having visual, hearing or substantial mobility impairments and whose rehabilitation and restorative care is clinically determined to be improved through the assistance of a guide dog or service dog. With this pilot program, the service dog has been identified as the optimal way for the veteran to manage the mobility impairment and live independently.

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