HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE
Title 38 - Veterans' Benefits
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
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
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
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