Part 17. PART 17—MEDICAL
Definitions and Active Duty
Protection of Patient Rights
Tentative Eligibility Determinations
Hospital or Nursing Home Care and Medical Services in Foreign Countries
Enrollment Provisions and Medical Benefits Package
- SECTION § 17.36 - Enrollment—provision of hospital and outpatient care to veterans.
- SECTION § 17.37 - Enrollment not required—provision of hospital and outpatient care to veterans.
- SECTION § 17.38 - Medical benefits package.
- SECTION § 17.39 - Certain Filipino veterans.
- SECTION § 17.40 - Additional services for indigents.
Examinations and Observation and Examination
Hospital, Domiciliary and Nursing Home Care
- SECTION § 17.43 - Persons entitled to hospital care.
- SECTION § 17.44 - Hospital care for certain retirees with chronic disability (Executive Orders 10122, 10400 and 11733).
- SECTION § 17.45 - Hospital care for research purposes.
- SECTION § 17.46 - Eligibility for hospital, domiciliary or nursing home care of persons discharged or released from active military, naval, or air service.
- SECTION § 17.47 - Considerations applicable in determining eligibility for hospital care, medical services, nursing home care, or domiciliary care.
- SECTION § 17.48 - Compensated Work Therapy/Transitional Residences program.
- SECTION § 17.49 - Priorities for outpatient medical services and inpatient hospital care.
Use of Department of Defense, Public Health Service or Other Federal Hospitals
Use of Public or Private Hospitals
- SECTION § 17.52 - Hospital care and medical services in non-VA facilities.
- SECTION § 17.53 - Limitations on use of public or private hospitals.
- SECTION § 17.54 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.55 - Payment for authorized public or private hospital care.
- SECTION § 17.56 - VA payment for inpatient and outpatient health care professional services at non-departmental facilities and other medical charges associated with non-VA outpatient care.
Use of Community Nursing Home Care Facilities
Community Residential Care
- SECTION § 17.61 - Eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.62 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.63 - Approval of community residential care facilities.
- SECTION § 17.64 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.65 - Approvals and provisional approvals of community residential care facilities.
- SECTION § 17.66 - Notice of noncompliance with VA standards.
- SECTION § 17.67 - Request for a hearing.
- SECTION § 17.68 - Notice and conduct of hearing.
- SECTION § 17.69 - Waiver of opportunity for hearing.
- SECTION § 17.70 - Written decision following a hearing.
- SECTION § 17.71 - Revocation of VA approval.
- SECTION § 17.72 - Availability of information.
- SECTION § 17.73 - Medical foster homes—general.
- SECTION § 17.74 - Standards applicable to medical foster homes.
Use of Services of Other Federal Agencies
- SECTION § 17.80 - Alcohol and drug dependence or abuse treatment and rehabilitation in residential and nonresidential facilities by contract.
- SECTION § 17.81 - Contracts for residential treatment services for veterans with alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities.
- SECTION § 17.82 - Contracts for outpatient services for veterans with alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities.
- SECTION § 17.83 - Limitations on payment for alcohol and drug dependence or abuse treatment and rehabilitation.
Research-Related Injuries
Care During Certain Disasters and Emergencies
Vocational Training and Health-Care Eligibility Protection for Pension Recipients
Outpatient Treatment
- SECTION § 17.92 - Outpatient care for research purposes.
- SECTION § 17.93 - Eligibility for outpatient services.
- SECTION § 17.94 - Outpatient medical services for military retirees and other beneficiaries.
- SECTION § 17.95 - Outpatient medical services for Department of Veterans Affairs employees and others in emergencies.
- SECTION § 17.96 - Medication prescribed by non-VA physicians.
- SECTION § 17.97 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.98 - Mental health services.
Charges, Waivers, and Collections
- SECTION § 17.100 - Requirements for provider-based status.
- SECTION § 17.101 - Collection or recovery by VA for medical care or services provided or furnished to a veteran for a non-service connected disability.
- SECTION § 17.102 - Charges for care or services.
- SECTION § 17.103 - Referrals of compromise settlement offers.
- SECTION § 17.104 - Terminations and suspensions.
- SECTION § 17.105 - Waivers.
- SECTION § 17.106 - VA collection rules; third-party payers.
Disciplinary Control of Beneficiaries Receiving Hospital, Domiciliary or Nursing Home Care
Copayments
Ceremonies
Reimbursement for Loss By Natural Disaster of Personal Effects of Hospitalized or Nursing Home Patients
Reimbursement to Employees for the Cost of Repairing or Replacing Certain Personal Property Damaged or Destroyed by Patients or Members
Payment and Reimbursement of the Expenses of Medical Services Not Previously Authorized
- SECTION § 17.120 - Payment or reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished by non-VA providers to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities.
- SECTION § 17.121 - Limitations on payment or reimbursement of the costs of emergency treatment not previously authorized.
- SECTION § 17.122 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.123 - Claimants.
- SECTION § 17.124 - Preparation of claims.
- SECTION § 17.125 - Where to file claims.
- SECTION § 17.126 - Timely filing.
- SECTION § 17.127 - Date of filing claims.
- SECTION § 17.128 - Allowable rates and fees.
- SECTION § 17.129 - Retroactive payments prohibited.
- SECTION § 17.130 - Payment for treatment dependent upon preference prohibited.
- SECTION § 17.131 - Payment of abandoned claims prohibited.
- SECTION § 17.132 - Appeals.
Reconsideration of Denied Claims
Delegation of Authority
Sensory and Other Rehabilitative Aids
- SECTION § 17.148 - Service dogs.
- SECTION § 17.149 - Sensori-neural aids.
- SECTION § 17.150 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.151 - Invalid lifts for recipients of aid and attendance allowance or special monthly compensation.
- SECTION § 17.152 - Devices to assist in overcoming the handicap of deafness.
- SECTION § 17.153 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.154 - Equipment for blind veterans.
Automotive Equipment and Driver Training
- SECTION § 17.155 - Minimum standards of safety and quality for automotive adaptive equipment.
- SECTION § 17.156 - Eligibility for automobile adaptive equipment.
- SECTION § 17.157 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.158 - Limitations on assistance.
- SECTION § 17.159 - Obtaining vehicles for special driver training courses.
Dental Services
- SECTION § 17.160 - Authorization of dental examinations.
- SECTION § 17.161 - Authorization of outpatient dental treatment.
- SECTION § 17.162 - Eligibility for Class II dental treatment without rating action.
- SECTION § 17.163 - Posthospital outpatient dental treatment.
- SECTION § 17.164 - Patient responsibility in making and keeping dental appointments.
- SECTION § 17.165 - Emergency outpatient dental treatment.
- SECTION § 17.166 - Dental services for hospital or nursing home patients and domiciled members.
- SECTION § 17.169 - VA Dental Insurance Program for veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans (VADIP).
Autopsies
Veterans Canteen Service
Sharing of Medical Facilities, Equipment, and Information
VA Pilot Program on Graduate Medical Education and Residency
- SECTION § 17.243 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.244 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.245 - Covered facilities.
- SECTION § 17.246 - Consideration factors for placement of residents.
- SECTION § 17.247 - Determination process for placement of residents.
- SECTION § 17.248 - Costs of placing residents and new residency programs.
Grants for Exchange of Information
- SECTION § 17.250 - Scope of the grant program.
- SECTION § 17.251 - The Subcommittee on Academic Affairs.
- SECTION § 17.252 - Ex officio member of subcommittee.
- SECTION § 17.253 - Applicants for grants.
- SECTION § 17.254 - Applications.
- SECTION § 17.255 - Applications for grants for programs which include construction projects.
- SECTION § 17.256 - Amended or supplemental applications.
- SECTION § 17.257 - Awards procedures.
- SECTION § 17.258 - Terms and conditions to which awards are subject.
- SECTION § 17.259 - Direct costs.
- SECTION § 17.260 - Patient care costs to be excluded from direct costs.
- SECTION § 17.261 - Indirect costs.
- SECTION § 17.262 - Authority to approve applications discretionary.
- SECTION § 17.263 - Suspension and termination procedures.
- SECTION § 17.264 - Recoupments and releases.
- SECTION § 17.265 - Payments.
- SECTION § 17.266 - Copyrights and patents.
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA)—Medical Care for Survivors and Dependents of Certain Veterans
- SECTION § 17.270 - General provisions and definitions.
- SECTION § 17.271 - Eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.272 - Benefits limitations/exclusions.
- SECTION § 17.273 - Preauthorization.
- SECTION § 17.274 - Cost sharing.
- SECTION § 17.275 - CHAMPVA determined allowable amount calculation.
- SECTION § 17.276 - Claim filing deadline.
- SECTION § 17.277 - Appeals.
- SECTION § 17.278 - Medical care cost recovery.
- SECTION § 17.279 - Confidentiality of records.
In Vitro Fertilization and Reimbursement of Adoption Expenses
Hospital Care, Medical Services, and Other Services for Live Donors
Hospital Care and Medical Services for Camp Lejeune Veterans and Families
Hospital Care and Medical Services for Spouses and Families
Authority of Health Care Providers to Practice in VA
Center for Innovation for Care and Payment
Confidentiality of Healthcare Quality Assurance Review Records
- SECTION § 17.500 - General.
- SECTION § 17.501 - Confidential and privileged documents.
- SECTION § 17.502 - Applicability of other statutes.
- SECTION § 17.503 - Improper disclosure.
- SECTION § 17.504 - Disclosure methods.
- SECTION § 17.505 - Disclosure authorities.
- SECTION § 17.506 - Appeal of decision by Veterans Health Administration to deny disclosure.
- SECTION § 17.507 - Employee responsibilities.
- SECTION § 17.508 - Access to quality assurance records and documents within the agency.
- SECTION § 17.509 - Authorized disclosure: Non-Department of Veterans Affairs requests.
- SECTION § 17.510 - Redisclosure.
- SECTION § 17.511 - Penalties for violations.
Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program
Educational Assistance for Certain Former Members of the Armed Forces
Readjustment Counseling Service Scholarship Program
VA Health Professional Scholarship Program
- SECTION § 17.600 - Purpose.
- SECTION § 17.601 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.602 - Eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.603 - Availability of HPSP scholarships.
- SECTION § 17.604 -
- SECTION § 17.605 - Selection of participants.
- SECTION § 17.606 - Award procedures.
- SECTION § 17.607 - Obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.608 - Deferment of obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.609 - Pay during period of obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.610 - Failure to comply with terms and conditions of participation.
- SECTION § 17.611 - Bankruptcy.
- SECTION § 17.612 - Cancellation, waiver, or suspension of obligation.
Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program
Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professional Scholarship Program
- SECTION § 17.625 - Purpose.
- SECTION § 17.626 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.627 - Eligibility for the VIOMPSP.
- SECTION § 17.628 - Availability of VIOMPSP scholarships.
- SECTION § 17.629 - Application for the VIOMPSP.
- SECTION § 17.630 - Selection of VIOMPSP participants.
- SECTION § 17.631 - Award procedures.
- SECTION § 17.632 - Obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.633 - Deferment of obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.634 - Failure to comply with terms and conditions of participation.
- SECTION § 17.635 - Bankruptcy.
- SECTION § 17.636 - Cancellation, waiver, or suspension of obligation.
Program for Repayment of Educational Loans for Certain VA Psychiatrists
- SECTION § 17.640 - Purpose.
- SECTION § 17.641 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.642 - Eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.643 - Application for the PREL.
- SECTION § 17.644 - Selection of participants.
- SECTION § 17.645 - Award procedures.
- SECTION § 17.646 - Obligated service.
- SECTION § 17.647 - Failure to comply with terms and conditions of participation.
Chaplain Services
Grants for Transportation of Veterans in Highly Rural Areas
- SECTION § 17.700 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.701 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.702 - Grants—general.
- SECTION § 17.703 - Eligibility and application.
- SECTION § 17.705 - Scoring criteria and selection.
- SECTION § 17.710 - Notice of Fund Availability.
- SECTION § 17.715 - Grant agreements.
- SECTION § 17.720 - Payments under the grant.
- SECTION § 17.725 - Grantee reporting requirements.
- SECTION § 17.730 - Recovery of funds by VA.
Transitional Housing Loan Program
Health Care Benefits for Certain Children of Vietnam Veterans and Veterans with Covered Service in Korea—Spina Bifida and Covered Birth Defects
Payment or Reimbursement for Emergency Services for Nonservice-Connected Conditions in Non-VA Facilities
- SECTION § 17.1000 - Payment or reimbursement for emergency services for nonservice-connected conditions in non-VA facilities.
- SECTION § 17.1001 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.1002 - Substantive conditions for payment or reimbursement.
- SECTION § 17.1003 - Emergency transportation.
- SECTION § 17.1004 - Filing claims.
- SECTION § 17.1005 - Payment limitations.
- SECTION § 17.1006 - Decisionmakers.
- SECTION § 17.1007 - Independent right of recovery.
- SECTION § 17.1008 - Balance billing prohibited.
Emergent Suicide Care
- SECTION § 17.1200 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.1205 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.1210 - Eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.1215 - Periods of emergent suicide care.
- SECTION § 17.1220 - Provision of emergent suicide care.
- SECTION § 17.1225 - Payment or reimbursement for emergent suicide care.
- SECTION § 17.1230 - Payment or reimbursement of emergency transportation.
Expanded Access to Non-VA Care Through the Veterans Choice Program
- SECTION § 17.1500 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.1505 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.1510 - Eligible veterans.
- SECTION § 17.1515 - Authorizing non-VA care.
- SECTION § 17.1520 - Effect on other provisions.
- SECTION § 17.1525 - [Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.1530 - Eligible entities and providers.
- SECTION § 17.1535 - Payment rates and methodologies.
- SECTION § 17.1540 - Claims processing system.
Vet Centers
Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) Program
- SECTION § 17.3100 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.3101 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.3102 - Eligibility.
- SECTION §§ 17.3103-17.3104 - §[Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.3105 - HISA benefit lifetime limits.
- SECTION §§ 17.3106-17.3119 - §[Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.3120 - Application for HISA benefits.
- SECTION §§ 17.3121-17.3124 - §[Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.3125 - Approving HISA benefits applications.
- SECTION § 17.3126 - Disapproving HISA benefits applications.
- SECTION §§ 17.3127-17.3129 - §[Reserved]
- SECTION § 17.3130 - HISA benefits payment procedures.
Prosthetic and Rehabilitative Items and Services
Clinical Laboratory Standards
Veterans Community Care Program
- SECTION § 17.4000 - Purpose and scope.
- SECTION § 17.4005 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.4010 - Veteran eligibility.
- SECTION § 17.4015 - Designated VA medical service lines.
- SECTION § 17.4020 - Authorized non-VA care.
- SECTION § 17.4025 - Effect on other provisions.
- SECTION § 17.4030 - Eligible entities and providers.
- SECTION § 17.4035 - Payment rates.
- SECTION § 17.4040 - Designated access standards.
Veterans Care Agreements
- SECTION § 17.4100 - Definitions.
- SECTION § 17.4105 - Purpose and Scope.
- SECTION § 17.4110 - Entity or provider certification.
- SECTION § 17.4115 - VA use of Veterans Care Agreements.
- SECTION § 17.4120 - Payment rates.
- SECTION § 17.4125 - Review of Veterans Care Agreements.
- SECTION § 17.4130 - Discontinuation of Veterans Care Agreements.
- SECTION § 17.4135 - Disputes.
- SECTION § 17.4600 - Urgent care.