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Elimination of Copayment for Smoking Cessation Counseling
This rule adopts as final, without change, the interim final rule published in the Federal Register (70 FR 22595) on May 2, 2005. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is publishing this final rule to designate smoking cessation counseling (individual and group sessions) as a service that is not subject to copayment requirements.
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Medical: Advance Health Care Planning
This document amends VA medical regulations to codify VA policy regarding advance health care planning. The final rule sets forth a mechanism for the use of written advance directives, i.e., a VA living will, a VA durable power of attorney for health care, and a State-authorized advance directive. The final rule also sets forth a mechanism for...
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Patients' Rights
This final rule amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations to update the patients' rights regulation by bringing its provisions regarding medication, restraints, and seclusion into conformity with current law and practice. The changes are primarily intended to clarify that it is permissible for VA patients to receive...
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Compensated Work Therapy/Transitional Residences Program; Correction
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is reinstating regulations that were inadvertently removed by a previous rulemaking. This final rule technical amendment corrects that error and restores the missing regulations.
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Elimination of Copayment for Smoking Cessation Counseling
This interim final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning copayments for inpatient hospital care and outpatient medical care. This rule designates smoking cessation counseling (individual and group sessions) as a service that is not subject to copayment requirements. The intended effect of this interim...
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Payment for Non-VA Physician and Other Health Care Professional Services Associated With Either Outpatient or Inpatient Care Provided at Non-VA Facilities
This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning payment for non-VA health care professional services that are associated with either outpatient or inpatient care provided to eligible VA beneficiaries at non-VA facilities. Currently, the medical regulations require all VA facilities to reimburse for...
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Eligibility for Health Care Benefits for Certain Filipino Veterans in the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations describe veterans who are eligible to receive health care from VA in the United States. We are proposing to amend these regulations to include any Filipino Commonwealth Army veteran who was recognized by authority of the U.S. Army as belonging to organized Filipino guerilla forces or new...
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Waivers
This document amends VA's medical regulation to give Fiscal Officers at VA medical facilities the authority to waive veterans' debts arising from the medical care co-payments. This change in regulation will codify an existing 1995 delegation of authority to Fiscal Officers from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The purpose of this 1995...
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Patients' Rights
This document proposes to amend VA's medical regulations to update the patients' rights regulation by bringing its provisions regarding medication, restraints and seclusion into conformity with current law and practice. The changes are primarily intended to clarify that it is permissible for VA patients to receive medication prescribed by any...
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Copayments for Extended Care Services
This document amends VA's medical regulations by modifying provisions regarding the methodology of computing copayments for extended care services provided to veterans. This final rule enhances the protection of veterans' spouses by not counting certain assets as available resources for computing these copayments. Other non- substantive changes...
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Priorities for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care
This final rule affirms without change an interim final rule that amended VA's medical regulations. The rule established that in scheduling appointments for non-emergency outpatient medical services and admissions for inpatient hospital care, VA will give priority to veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 50 percent or greater and...
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Sensori-Neural Aids
This final rule amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning sensori-neural aids. An existing regulation authorizes VA to provide sensori-neural aids (i.e., eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids) to seven specific groups of veterans identified in the regulation. The first four groups consist of veterans with the...
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VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program; Religious Organizations
This document adopts with changes the provisions of a proposed rule that revised the regulations concerning the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (Program). Specifically, the proposed rule revised provisions that apply to religious organizations that receive Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) funds under the Program to ensure...
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Charges Used for Recovery From Tortiously Liable Third Parties for Medical Care or Services Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations with respect to charges used for the purpose of recovering from tortiously liable third parties the reasonable value of medical care and services provided by VA. The effect of this action is to amend VA's medical regulations to conform with the decision of the...
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Reasonable Charges for Medical Care or Services; 2003 Methodology Changes
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning ``reasonable charges'' for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran: [sbull] For a nonservice-connected disability for which the veteran is entitled to care (or the payment of expenses of care) under a health plan contract;...
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Co-payments for Inpatient Hospital Care Provided to Veterans Enrolled in Priority Category 7
VA's medical regulations include a mechanism for determining co-payments for inpatient hospital care provided to veterans by VA. This document revises that mechanism for veterans in the new priority category 7 as required by the Department of Veterans Affairs Programs Enhancement Act of 2001. That Act reduced the co-payment for inpatient...
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Copayments for Extended Care Services
We propose to amend VA's medical regulations by modifying provisions regarding the methodology of computing copayments for extended care services provided to veterans. This proposal enhances the protection of veterans' spouses by not counting certain assets as available resources for computing these copayments. Other non- substantive changes are...
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Reasonable Charges for Medical Care or Services; 2003 Methodology Changes
This document proposes to amend the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations concerning ``reasonable charges'' for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran:
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VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program; Religious Organizations
We propose to revise the regulations concerning the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program. More specifically, we propose to revise provisions that apply to religious organizations that receive VA funds under VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program to ensure that VA activities under this program are open to all qualified...
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VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
This document affirms without any changes except for adding OMB information collection citations in part 61, to the provisions of an interim final rule that revised the regulations concerning the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program. In large part the interim final rule implemented the provisions of the Homeless Veterans...