AGENCY:
Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
This document provides “reasonable charges” for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran:
- 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;
- For a nonservice-connected disability incurred incident to the veteran's employment and covered under a worker's compensation law or plan that provides reimbursement or indemnification for such care and services; or
- For a nonservice-connected disability incurred as a result of a motor vehicle accident in a State that requires automobile accident reparations insurance.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Cleaver, VHA Revenue Office (174), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 273-8210. (This is not a toll free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The “reasonable charges” regulations for medical care or services (38 CFR 17.101), as amended by a companion document published in this Part II of this issue of the Federal Register, have established the methodology for inpatient facility charges at § 17.101(b), the methodology for skilled nursing facility/sub-acute inpatient facility charges at § 17.101(c), the methodology for outpatient facility charges at § 17.101(d), and the methodology for physician charges at § 17.101(e). Using these methodologies, information for calculating actual charge amounts at individual VA facilities is set forth below and is effective beginning November 2, 2000, and until changed in a Federal Register notice.
Hershel W. Gober,
Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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[FR Doc. 00-27722 Filed 11-1-00; 8:45 am]
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