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Title 38 - Veterans’ Benefits
Part II - GENERAL BENEFITS (§§ 1101 - 2414)
Chapter 17 - HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE (§§ 1701 - 1787)
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Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 38 - VETERANS' BENEFITS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 38 - VETERANS' BENEFITS PART II - GENERAL BENEFITS CHAPTER 17 - HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE |
Contains | sections 1701 to 1787 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - GENERAL (§§ 1701 - 1709A)
- Section 1701 - Definitions
- Section 1702 - Presumptions: psychosis after service in World War II and following periods of war; mental illness after service in the Persian Gulf War
- Section 1703 - Contracts for hospital care and medical services in non-Department facilities
- Section 1704 - Preventive health services: annual report
- Section 1705 - Management of health care: patient enrollment system
- Section 1706 - Management of health care: other requirements
- Section 1707 - Limitations
- Section 1708 - Temporary lodging
- Section 1709 - Comprehensive policy on reporting and tracking sexual assault incidents and other safety incidents
- Section 1709A - Teleconsultation
- Subchapter II - HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, OR DOMICILIARY CARE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT (§§ 1710 - 1720G)
- Section 1710 - Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care
- Section 1710A - Required nursing home care
- Section 1710B - Extended care services
- Section 1710C - Traumatic brain injury: plans for rehabilitation and reintegration into the community
- Section 1710D - Traumatic brain injury: comprehensive program for long-term rehabilitation
- Section 1710E - Traumatic brain injury: use of non-Department facilities for rehabilitation
- Section 1711 - Care during examinations and in emergencies
- Section 1712 - Dental care; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vaccines
- Section 1712A - Eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services
- Section 1712B - Counseling for former prisoners of war
- Section 1713 - Renumbered §1781
- Section 1714 - Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; guide dogs; service dogs
- Section 1715 - Tobacco for hospitalized veterans
- Section 1716 - Hospital care by other agencies of the United States
- Section 1717 - Home health services; invalid lifts and other devices
- Section 1718 - Therapeutic and rehabilitative activities
- Section 1719 - Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other appliances
- Section 1720 - Transfers for nursing home care; adult day health care
- Section 1720A - Treatment and rehabilitative services for persons with drug or alcohol dependency
- Section 1720B - Respite care
- Section 1720C - Noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care
- Section 1720D - Counseling and treatment for sexual trauma
- Section 1720E - Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation
- Section 1720F - Comprehensive program for suicide prevention among veterans
- Section 1720G - Assistance and support services for caregivers
- Subchapter III - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME CARE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF... (§§ 1721 - 1730A)
- Section 1721 - Power to make rules and regulations
- Section 1722 - Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds
- Section 1722A - Copayment for medications
- Section 1722B - Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans
- Section 1723 - Furnishing of clothing
- Section 1724 - Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad
- Section 1725 - Reimbursement for emergency treatment
- Section 1726 - Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster
- Section 1727 - Persons eligible under prior law
- Section 1728 - Reimbursement of certain medical expenses
- Section 1729 - Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services
- Section 1729A - Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund
- Section 1729B - Consolidated patient accounting centers
- Section 1730 - Community residential care
- Section 1730A - Prohibition on collection of copayments from catastrophically disabled veterans
- Subchapter IV - HOSPITAL CARE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR VETERANS IN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (§§ 1731 - 1735)
- Section 1731 - Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines
- Section 1732 - Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
- Section 1733 - Supervision of program by the President
- Section 1734 - Hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States
- Section 1735 - Definitions
- Subchapter V - PAYMENTS TO STATE HOMES (§§ 1741 - 1745)
- Section 1741 - Criteria for payment
- Section 1742 - Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries
- Section 1743 - Applications
- Section 1744 - Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States
- Section 1745 - Nursing home care and medications for veterans with service-connected disabilities
- Subchapter VI - SICKLE CELL ANEMIA (§§ 1751 - 1764)
- Subchapter VII - TRANSFERRED (§§ 1771 - 1774)
- Subchapter VIII - HEALTH CARE OF PERSONS OTHER THAN VETERANS (§§ 1781 - 1787)
- Section 1781 - Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans
- Section 1782 - Counseling, training, and mental health services for immediate family members and caregivers
- Section 1783 - Bereavement counseling
- Section 1784 - Humanitarian care
- Section 1785 - Care and services during certain disasters and emergencies
- Section 1786 - Care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care
- Section 1787 - Health care of family members of veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
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