Title 38, Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care

Definitions

Presumptions: psychosis after service in World War II and following periods of war; mental illness after service in the Persian Gulf War

Veterans Community Care Program

Agreements with eligible entities or providers; certification processes

Access standards

Standards for quality

Prompt payment standard

Center for Innovation for Care and Payment

Credentialing verification requirements for providers of non-Department health care services

Quarterly report on referrals for non-Department health care

Preventive health services: annual report

Independent assessments of health care delivery systems and management processes

Management of health care: patient enrollment system

Management of health care: information regarding health-plan contracts

Management of health care: other requirements

Remediation of medical service lines

Limitations

Temporary lodging

Comprehensive policy on reporting and tracking sexual assault incidents and other safety incidents

Teleconsultation

Evaluations of mental health care and suicide prevention programs

Assistance for child care for certain veterans receiving health care

Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care

Required nursing home care

Extended care services

Traumatic brain injury: plans for rehabilitation and reintegration into the community

Traumatic brain injury: comprehensive program for long-term rehabilitation

Traumatic brain injury: use of non-Department facilities for rehabilitation

Care during examinations and in emergencies

Dental care; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vaccines

Eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services

Counseling for former prisoners of war

Dental insurance plan for veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans

Renumbered § 1781]

Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; guide dogs; service dogs

Tobacco for hospitalized veterans

Hospital care by other agencies of the United States

Home health services; invalid lifts and other devices

Therapeutic and rehabilitative activities

Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other appliances

Transfers for nursing home care; adult day health care

Treatment and rehabilitative services for persons with drug or alcohol dependency

Respite care

Noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care

Counseling and treatment for sexual trauma

Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation

Comprehensive program for suicide prevention among veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces

Assistance and support services for caregivers

Mental health treatment for veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who served in classified missions

Mental and behavioral health care for certain former members of the Armed Forces

Emergent suicide care

Grants or contracts to provide mental health support to family caregivers of veterans

Home- and community-based services: programs

Power to make rules and regulations

Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds

Copayment for medications

Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans

Copayments: prohibition on collection of copayments for first three mental health care outpatient visits of veterans

Furnishing of clothing

Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad

Reimbursement for emergency treatment

Access to walk-in care

Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster

Persons eligible under prior law

Reimbursement of certain medical expenses

Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund

Consolidated patient accounting centers

Community residential care

Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans

Access to State prescription drug monitoring programs

Licensure of health care professionals providing treatment via telemedicine

Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines

Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center

Supervision of program by the President

Hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States

Definitions

Criteria for payment

Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries

Applications

Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States

Nursing home care, adult day health care, and medications for veterans with service-connected disabilities

Screening, counseling, and medical treatment

Research

Voluntary participation; confidentiality

Reports

Repealed. Pub. L. 102–585, title V, § 514(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 4958]

Renumbered §§ 2031 to 2034]

Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans

Counseling, training, and mental health services for immediate family members and caregivers

Bereavement counseling

Humanitarian care

Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor

Care and services during certain disasters and emergencies

Care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care

Health care of family members of veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

Transplant procedures with live donors and related services

Mental health services for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces