00-27722. Reasonable Charges for Medical Care or Services

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, [phone]. (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.

Approved: August 30, 2000.

Hershel W. Gober,

Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs.