HAGATNA, Guam\u2014The Department of Veterans Affairs is undergoing a phased rollout of a newly designed, more secure Veteran Health Identification Card.<\/p>\n
These cards have additional security features and will have a different look and feel. Similar to a regular health insurance card the card also acts as a Veterans Health Identification Card. The VHIC displays the veteran\u2019s member ID, a new unique identifier, as well as a Plan ID, reflecting the veteran\u2019s enrollment in VA health care.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Veterans are truly beginning to benefit from remarkable changes in their benefits and services,\u201d said Guam Sen. Frank B. Aguon Jr. \u201cThe rollout of these new insurance cards is a testament to our federal Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 effort to modernize, improve, and expand services for all veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n
The VHIC is personalized to display the emblem of the veteran\u2019s branch of service. It also provides features that make it easier to use. An addition of \u201cVA\u201d in Braille will help visually impaired veterans and the printing of VA phone numbers and emergency care instructions will also be placed on the cards. The card replaces the Veteran Identification Card, which was introduced in 2004.The issuing of these cards is a phased rollout and the card will only be offered to newly enrolled and other veterans who have not been issued a VIC.<\/p>\n
In early April, the VA will begin a three-month effort to automatically issue the more secure VHIC to current VIC cardholders.\u00a0(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAGATNA, Guam\u2014The Department of Veterans Affairs is undergoing a phased rollout of a newly designed,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,55,308,711],"class_list":["post-28625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-health-2","tag-id","tag-pr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}