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  • Caregivers Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 01/09/2015.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts, with changes, the interim final rule concerning VA's Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers. VA administers this program to provide certain medical, travel, training, and financial benefits to caregivers of certain veterans and servicemembers who were seriously injured during...

  • Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) Benefits Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/03/2014.

    This rulemaking adopts as final, without change, a proposed rule creating regulations for the Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) benefits program. Through the HISA benefits program, VA provides monetary benefits to disabled veterans for necessary home improvements and alterations. An increase in the HISA benefits limit was...

  • Exempting Mental Health Peer Support Services From Copayments

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/28/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking final action to amend its regulation that sets forth the VA services that are not subject to copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care or outpatient medical care. Specifically, the regulation is amended to exempt mental health peer support services from having any required copayment....

  • Exempting Mental Health Peer Support Services From Copayments

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/28/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend its regulation that sets forth the VA services that are not subject to copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care or outpatient medical care. Specifically, the regulation would be amended to exempt mental health peer support services from having any required copayment. This...

  • Technical Corrections to Medical Regulations Based on Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/14/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations by making technical corrections to conform to the Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 (Act of 1996). Currently VA regulations read that veterans receive only VA hospital care to treat medical conditions of eligible veterans. We are amending our...

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

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/05/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its medical regulations concerning its authority for eligible veterans to receive care from non-VA entities and providers. The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 directs VA to establish a program to furnish hospital care and medical services through non-VA health care providers...

  • Copayments for Medications in 2015

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 10/27/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its medical regulations concerning the copayment required for certain medications. But for this rulemaking, beginning on January 1, 2015, the copayment amount would increase based on a formula set forth in regulation. The maximum annual copayment amount payable by veterans would also increase. This...

  • Hospital Care and Medical Services for Camp Lejeune Veterans

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 09/24/2014.

    This document amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations in order to implement a statutory mandate that VA provide health care to certain veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for at least 30 days during the period beginning on January 1, 1957, and ending on December 31, 1987. The law requires VA to furnish hospital...

  • Payment or Reimbursement for Certain Medical Expenses for Camp Lejeune Family Members

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 09/24/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is promulgating regulations to implement statutory authority to provide payment or reimbursement for hospital care and medical services provided to certain veterans' family members who resided at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for at least 30 days during the period beginning on January 1, 1957, and ending...

  • Updating Certain Citations in VA Medical Regulations

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 09/12/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making technical amendments to its medical regulations by updating the statutory authorities identified in certain sections where those statutes have been renumbered or where the authority citation is inaccurate for other technical, nonsubstantive reasons. VA is also amending outdated or incorrect...

  • Update to NFPA Standards, Incorporation by Reference

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 07/15/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations incorporating by reference the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes and standards. These codes and standards are referenced in VA regulations concerning community residential care facilities, contract facilities for certain outpatient and residential services,...

  • Copayments for Medications in 2014

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/27/2014.

    This document adopts as a final rule, without change, an interim final rule amending the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations to freeze the copayments required for certain medications provided by VA until December 31, 2014. Under that rule, the copayment amounts for all veterans were maintained at the same rates as they were...

  • Community Residential Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 01/08/2014.

    This rule adopts as final, without change, an interim final rule amending the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations concerning approval of non-VA community residential care (CRC) facilities to allow VA to waive such facilities' compliance with standards that do not jeopardize the health or safety of residents. As amended, the...

  • Removal of Penalty for Breaking Appointments

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 01/08/2014.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations to remove an outdated regulation that stated that a veteran who misses two medical appointments without providing 24 hours' notice and a reasonable excuse is deemed to have refused VA medical care. VA removes this penalty because we believe it is incompatible with regulatory changes...

  • Copayments for Medications in 2014

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/30/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its medical regulations concerning the copayment required for certain medications. But for this rulemaking, beginning on January 1, 2014, the copayment amount would increase based on a formula set forth in regulation. The maximum annual copayment amount payable by veterans would also increase. This...

  • Duty Periods for Establishing Eligibility for Health Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/26/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its medical regulations concerning eligibility for health care to re- establish the definitions of ``active military, naval, or air service,'' ``active duty,'' and ``active duty for training.'' These definitions were deleted in 1996; however, we believe that all duty periods should be defined...

  • Authorization for Non-VA Medical Services

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/16/2013.

    This Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rulemaking amends VA's regulations regarding payment by VA for medical services under VA's statutory authority for non-VA medical care. In the Federal Register on November 28, 2012, VA proposed to remove an outdated regulatory limitation on veterans' eligibility to be referred for non- VA medical care. On...

  • Grants to States for Construction or Acquisition of State Homes

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/06/2013.

    This rule adopts as final, without change, an interim final rule amending the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations governing prioritization of State applications for VA grants for the construction or acquisition of State home facilities that furnish domiciliary, nursing home, or adult day health care to veterans. As amended, the...

  • Criteria for a Catastrophically Disabled Determination for Purposes of Enrollment

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 12/03/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulation concerning the manner in which VA determines that a veteran is catastrophically disabled for purposes of enrollment in priority group 4 for VA health care. As amended by this rulemaking, the regulation articulates the clinical criteria that identify an individual as...

  • Copayment for Extended Care Services

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 11/27/2013.

    This document promulgates Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) final regulations amending the definition of ``spousal resource protection amount'' to reference the Maximum Community Spouse Resource Standard, which is adjusted and published each year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This change has the immediate effect of...