Elimination of Co-Payment for Weight Management Counseling

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title: "Elimination of Co-Payment for Weight Management Counseling"
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title_name: "Federal Register"
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section_name: "Elimination of Co-Payment for Weight Management Counseling"
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currency: "2008-11-03"
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agency: "Veterans Affairs Department"
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document_type: "proposed_rule"
publication_date: "2008-11-03"
agencies:
  - "Veterans Affairs Department"
cfr_references:
  - "38 CFR Part 17"
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fr_action: "Withdrawal of proposed rule."
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#  Elimination of Co-Payment for Weight Management Counseling

**AGENCY:**

Department of Veterans Affairs.

**ACTION:**

Withdrawal of proposed rule.

**SUMMARY:**

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing VA's proposal published in the *Federal Register* at 73 FR 20579 on April 16, 2008, to amend our medical regulations to designate weight management counseling (individual and group sessions) as a service that is not subject to VA's co-payment requirements. VA received no significant adverse comments concerning the proposed rule or its companion substantially identical direct final rule published on the same date. In a companion document in this issue of the *Federal Register* , we are confirming that the direct final rule became effective on June 16, 2008. Accordingly, this document withdraws as unnecessary the proposed rule.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Tony Guagliardo, Director, Business Policy, Chief Business Office (16), Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461-1591 (this is not a toll-free number).

Approved: October 27, 2008.

Gordon H. Mansfield,

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.