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  • 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...

  • TRICARE Revision to CHAMPUS DRG-Based Payment System, Pricing of Hospital Claims

    by the Defense Department on 05/21/2014.

    This Final rule changes TRICARE's current regulatory provision for inpatient hospital claims priced under the DRG-based payment system. Claims are currently priced by using the rates and weights that are in effect on a beneficiary's date of admission. This Final rule changes that provision to price such claims by using the rates and weights that...

  • 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    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations to remove an outdated regulation that stated that a veteran who misses two medical appointments without providing 24 hours' notice and a reasonable excuse is deemed to have refused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...

  • TRICARE; Removal of the Prohibition To Use Addictive Drugs in the Maintenance Treatment of Substance Dependence in TRICARE Beneficiaries

    by the Defense Department on 10/22/2013.

    The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this final rule to remove the exclusion of drug maintenance programs and allow TRICARE coverage of the substitution of a therapeutic drug, with addictive potential, for a drug of addiction when medically necessary and appropriate as part of a comprehensive treatment plan for an individual with...

  • VA Dental Insurance Program-Federalism

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 10/22/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking direct final action to amend its regulations related to the VA Dental Insurance Program (VADIP), a pilot program to offer premium-based dental insurance to enrolled veterans and certain survivors and dependents of veterans. Specifically, this rule will add language to clarify the limited...

  • Vet Center Services

    by the Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department on 09/17/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing in regulation the readjustment counseling currently provided in VA's Vet Centers to certain veterans of the Armed Forces and members of their families, and implementing provisions of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 regarding readjustment counseling.

  • Technical Changes To Remove Forms

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 08/21/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making technical changes to remove from its regulations a series of forms related to VA payments for care provided to veterans at State homes. Official forms are not required to be reproduced in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and all VA forms are more readily available on VA Web sites. Removing...

  • VA Health Professional Scholarship and Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professional Scholarship Programs

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 08/20/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its VA Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP) regulations. VA is also establishing regulations for a new program, the Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professional Scholarship Program (VIOMPSP). These regulations comply with and implement sections 302 and 603 of the...

  • TRICARE; Reimbursement of Sole Community Hospitals and Adjustment to Reimbursement of Critical Access Hospitals

    by the Defense Department on 08/08/2013.

    This Final Rule implements for Sole Community Hospitals (SCHs) the statutory provision at title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), section 1079(j)(2) that TRICARE payment methods for institutional care be determined, to the extent practicable, in accordance with the same reimbursement rules as those that apply to payments to providers of services...

  • Payment or Reimbursement for Emergency Services for Nonservice-Connected Conditions in Non-VA Facilities; Correction

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 06/17/2013.

    This document corrects a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) final rule that governs ``Payment or Reimbursement for Emergency Services for Nonservice-Connected Conditions in Non-VA Facilities'' regulations to conform with a statutory change that expanded veterans' eligibility for reimbursement. This document corrects a typographical error...

  • Community Residential Care

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/29/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations concerning approval of non-VA community residential care facilities to allow VA to waive such facilities' compliance with standards that do not jeopardize the health or safety of residents. Waiver would be authorized in those limited circumstances where the deficiency cannot be...

  • VA Dental Insurance Program

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/29/2013.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its regulations to establish rules and procedures for the VA Dental Insurance Program (VADIP), a pilot program that offers premium-based dental insurance to enrolled veterans and certain survivors and dependents of veterans. Under the pilot program, VA will contract with a private insurer, through...

  • Copayments for Medications in 2013

    by the Veterans Affairs Department on 05/23/2013.

    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, 2013. Under that rule, the copayment amounts for all enrolled veterans were maintained at the same rates as...