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  • Authority of VA Professionals To Practice Health Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/12/2020.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this interim final rule to confirm that its health care professionals may practice their health care profession consistent with the scope and requirements of their VA employment, notwithstanding any State license, registration, certification, or other requirements that unduly interfere with...

  • Provider-Based Requirements

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 08/28/2020.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no changes, a proposed rule to revise its medical regulations concerning collection and recovery by VA for medical care and services provided to an individual at a VA medical facility for treatment of a nonservice-connected condition. Specifically, this rulemaking adds a regulation...

  • Technical Correction to Reimbursement of Qualifying Adoption Expenses for Certain Veterans

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/28/2020.

    This final rule will add the Office of Management and Budget approval number for the new collection of information in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulation that governs the reimbursement of qualifying adoption expenses incurred by a veteran with a service- connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to...

  • Informed Consent and Advance Directives

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/27/2020.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulation regarding informed consent and advance directives. We amend the regulation by reorganizing it and amending language where necessary to enhance clarity. In addition, we amend the regulation to facilitate the informed consent process, the ability to communicate with patients or...

  • Health Professional Scholarship Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 03/06/2020.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern the Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP). The amended regulations ensures that VA award not less than 50 HPSP scholarships each year to students who are accepted for enrollment or are enrolled in a program of education or training that leads to employment...

  • Reimbursement of Qualifying Adoption Expenses for Certain Veterans

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/13/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes based on subsequent statutory authority, an interim final rule providing for reimbursement of qualifying adoption expenses incurred by a veteran with a service-connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to procreate without the use of fertility...

  • Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/13/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern scholarships to certain health care professionals. This rulemaking implements the mandates of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 by establishing a pilot program to provide funding for the medical education of eligible veterans who are enrolled in covered medical schools.

  • Center for Innovation for Care and Payment

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 10/25/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final a proposed rule amending its regulations that govern VA health care. This final rule establishes parameters and authority for the new Center for Innovation for Care and Payment in its conduct of pilot programs designed to develop innovative approaches to testing payment and service delivery...

  • Approval Criteria for Rates Charged for Community Residential Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 07/15/2019.

    The Department of Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes, a proposed rule amending its regulation governing standards applicable to a community residential care facility (CRC) approved by VA. This rule also addresses the amount that a veteran may be charged for residence in a CRC and how VA determines whether that rate is appropriate. The...

  • Case Management Services Grant Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 06/26/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no changes, an interim final rule amending its regulations that govern programs benefitting homeless veterans to implement a new statutory requirement. The statute requires VA to establish a new grant program that will provide case management services to improve the retention of...

  • Veterans Community Care Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 06/05/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final a proposed rule amending its regulations that govern VA health care. This final rule implements its authority from the VA MISSION ACT of 2018 for covered veterans to receive necessary hospital care, medical services, and extended care services from non-VA entities or providers in the...

  • Removing Net Worth Requirement From Health Care Enrollment

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/24/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is removing the regulatory provisions regarding the veteran's net worth as a factor in determining the veteran's eligibility for VA health care. Prior to January 1, 2015, VA considered a veteran's net worth and annual income when determining a veteran's assignment to an enrollment priority group for VA...

  • Veterans Care Agreements

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/14/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its medical regulations to implement its authority to furnish necessary care to covered individuals through certain agreements. Section 102 of the John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka, and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018...

  • Fertility Counseling and Treatment for Certain Veterans and Spouses

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 03/07/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes based on subsequent changes to our statutory authority, an interim final rule adding a new section to the medical regulations authorizing in vitro fertilization (IVF) for a veteran with a service- connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to procreate...

  • Update: Enrollment-Provision of Hospital and Outpatient Care to Medal of Honor Veterans

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 03/05/2019.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations governing eligibility for VA health care and copayment requirements to conform to recent statutory changes. VA is changing its enrollment criteria to move Medal of Honor recipients from priority category three to priority category one, and exempting recipients of the...

  • Definition of Domiciliary Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 09/25/2018.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no changes, a proposed rule amending the definition of domiciliary care to encompass VA's Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (MH RRTP). This rule aligns regulations with VA's administrative decision in 2005 to designate MH RRTP as a type of domiciliary care. We...

  • Third Party Billing for Medical Care Provided Under Special Treatment Authorities

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 07/06/2018.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations to clarify that VA will not bill third party payers for care and services provided by VA under certain statutory provisions, which we refer to as ``special treatment authorities.'' These special treatment authorities direct VA to provide care and services to veterans...

  • Medical Care in Foreign Countries and Filing for Reimbursement for Community Care Not Previously Authorized by VA

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 06/25/2018.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no changes, a proposed rule amending its medical regulations related to hospital care and medical services in foreign countries. We simplified and clarified the scope of these regulations, address medical services provided to eligible veterans in the Republic of the Philippines, and...

  • Expanded Access to Non-VA Care Through the Veterans Choice Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/11/2018.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no change, an interim final rule revising its medical regulations that implement section 101 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, as amended, (hereafter referred to as ``the Choice Act''), which requires VA to establish a program (hereafter referred to as...

  • Authority of Health Care Providers To Practice Telehealth

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/11/2018.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations by standardizing the delivery of care by VA health care providers through telehealth. This rule ensures that VA health care providers can offer the same level of care to all beneficiaries, irrespective of the State or location in a State of the VA health care provider or...