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Title 38 - Veterans' Benefits (Sections 101 - 8528)
Part II - General Benefits (Sections 1101 - 2414)
Chapter 17 - Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care (Sections 1701 - 1787)
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Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, 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 | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - General (Sections 1701 - 1709A)
- Sec. 1701 - Definitions
- Sec. 1702 - Presumptions: psychosis after service in World War II and following periods of war; mental illness after service in the Persian Gulf War
- Sec. 1703 - Contracts for hospital care and medical services in non-Department facilities
- Sec. 1704 - Preventive health services: annual report
- Sec. 1705 - Management of health care: patient enrollment system
- Sec. 1706 - Management of health care: other requirements
- Sec. 1707 - Limitations
- Sec. 1708 - Temporary lodging
- Sec. 1709 - Comprehensive policy on reporting and tracking sexual assault incidents and other safety incidents
- Sec. 1709A - Teleconsultation
- Subchapter II - Hospital, Nursing Home, or Domiciliary Care and Medical Treatment (Sections 1710 - 1720G)
- Sec. 1710 - Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care
- Sec. 1710A - Required nursing home care
- Sec. 1710B - Extended care services
- Sec. 1710C - Traumatic brain injury: plans for rehabilitation and reintegration into the community
- Sec. 1710D - Traumatic brain injury: comprehensive program for long-term rehabilitation
- Sec. 1710E - Traumatic brain injury: use of non-Department facilities for rehabilitation
- Sec. 1711 - Care during examinations and in emergencies
- Sec. 1712 - Dental care; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vaccines
- Sec. 1712A - Eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services
- Sec. 1712B - Counseling for former prisoners of war
- Sec. 1713 - Renumbered §1781
- Sec. 1714 - Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; guide dogs; service dogs
- Sec. 1715 - Tobacco for hospitalized veterans
- Sec. 1716 - Hospital care by other agencies of the United States
- Sec. 1717 - Home health services; invalid lifts and other devices
- Sec. 1718 - Therapeutic and rehabilitative activities
- Sec. 1719 - Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other appliances
- Sec. 1720 - Transfers for nursing home care; adult day health care
- Sec. 1720A - Treatment and rehabilitative services for persons with drug or alcohol dependency
- Sec. 1720B - Respite care
- Sec. 1720C - Noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care
- Sec. 1720D - Counseling and treatment for sexual trauma
- Sec. 1720E - Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation
- Sec. 1720F - Comprehensive program for suicide prevention among veterans
- Sec. 1720G - Assistance and support services for caregivers
- Subchapter III - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Hospital and Nursing Home Care and Medical Treatment of Veterans (Sections 1721 - 1730A)
- Sec. 1721 - Power to make rules and regulations
- Sec. 1722 - Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds
- Sec. 1722A - Copayment for medications
- Sec. 1722B - Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans
- Sec. 1723 - Furnishing of clothing
- Sec. 1724 - Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad
- Sec. 1725 - Reimbursement for emergency treatment
- Sec. 1726 - Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster
- Sec. 1727 - Persons eligible under prior law
- Sec. 1728 - Reimbursement of certain medical expenses
- Sec. 1729 - Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services
- Sec. 1729A - Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund
- Sec. 1729B - Consolidated patient accounting centers
- Sec. 1730 - Community residential care
- Sec. 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 (Sections 1731 - 1735)
- Sec. 1731 - Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines
- Sec. 1732 - Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
- Sec. 1733 - Supervision of program by the President
- Sec. 1734 - Hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States
- Sec. 1735 - Definitions
- Subchapter V - Payments to State Homes (Sections 1741 - 1745)
- Subchapter VI - Sickle Cell Anemia (Sections 1751 - 1764)
- Subchapter VII - Transferred (Sections 1771 - 1774)
- Subchapter VIII - Health Care of Persons Other Than Veterans (Sections 1781 - 1787)
- Sec. 1781 - Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans
- Sec. 1782 - Counseling, training, and mental health services for immediate family members and caregivers
- Sec. 1783 - Bereavement counseling
- Sec. 1784 - Humanitarian care
- Sec. 1785 - Care and services during certain disasters and emergencies
- Sec. 1786 - Care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care
- Sec. 1787 - Health care of family members of veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
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