Veterans of the United States have come to Costa Rica looking for a peaceful retreat for decades, finding here a paradise of nature and friendship. One of those friends is Lia — an experienced pharmacist who has helped countless members of the veteran community in Costa Rica.
Veterans Pharmacy Costa Rica is a service of Farmacia Adela S.A., a family-run pharmacy that has served Costa Rica for more than 35 years. Years ago, Lia kept meeting veterans with the same problem: their VA Foreign Medical Program benefits worked on paper, but in practice they were paying cash at local pharmacies and waiting months for reimbursement checks — if the paperwork went through at all.
So she teamed up with Aída and built the missing piece: Farmacia Adela enrolled as a provider with the VA’s Financial Services Center, learned FMP billing inside and out, and began filing claims directly — so veterans stopped paying out of pocket for their covered medications. Then came delivery, because a veteran in Guanacaste or the Southern Zone shouldn’t ride a bus for hours every month. Today we serve veterans across all of Costa Rica — and, through our partner pharmacies, in Nicaragua too.
The Team
Lia
Pharmacist, 30 years of experience.
Lia cares for the whole patient — thorough, patient, and thoughtful. She personally handles your medications: interactions, dosages, and side effects, and she has connections with the best doctors in the country. Fluent in English.
Aída
Medical Billing Specialist
Aída has spent nearly two decades getting veterans’ paperwork right: FMP registration (Form 10-7959f-1), documentation, and direct billing to the VA — filed correctly the first time. When a claim gets tangled, she’s the one who untangles it. Fluent in English.
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