Veterans Affairs Department
This rulemaking adopts as final, with changes, proposed amendments to VA's regulations governing payment of per diem to States for nursing home care, domiciliary care, and adult day health care for eligible veterans in State homes. This rulemaking reorganizes, updates, and clarifies State home regulations, authorizes greater flexibility in adult day health care programs, and establishes regulations regarding domiciliary care, with clarifications regarding the care that State homes must provide to veterans in domiciliaries.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Veterans Affairs 38 CFR Parts 17, 51, and 52 RIN 2900-AO88 AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This rulemaking adopts as final, with changes, proposed amendments to VA's regulations governing payment of per diem to States for nursing home care, domiciliary care, and adult day health care for eligible veterans in State homes. This rulemaking reorganizes, updates, and clarifies State home regulations, authorizes greater flexibility in adult day health care programs, and establishes regulations regarding domiciliary care, with clarifications regarding the care that State homes must provide to veterans in domiciliaries. DATES: This rule is effective on December 28, 2018. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. George F. Fuller, Chief Consultant, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services (10NC4), Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461-6750. (This is not a toll-free number.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 17, 2015, VA proposed changes to parts 17, 51, and 52 of title 38 Code of Federal Regulations . 80 FR 34794 . VA published technical corrections to the proposed rulemaking on June 24, 2015, 80 FR 36305 . This final rule amends part 17 by deleting provisions that applied to State home hospitals, because there no longer are any, and moving to part 51 the other provisions that apply to State homes, including State home domiciliary care programs. It revises part 51 subparts A, B, and C to elimi…
Citation: 83 FR 61250
