# Payment for Home Health Services and Hospice Care to Non-VA Providers; Delay of Effective Date
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule; delay of effective date. · Published 2013-11-14 · Effective 2013-05-06 · 78 FR 68364
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-27218
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 68364
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2013-11-14
- **Effective date:** 2013-05-06
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published in the Federal Register on May 6, 2013 (78 FR 26250) a final rule to change the billing methodology for non-VA providers of home health services and hospice care. The preamble of that final rule stated the effective date was November 15, 2013. This document delays that effective date to April 1, 2014.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/11/14/2013-27218/payment-for-home-health-services-and-hospice-care-to-non-va-providers-delay-of-effective-date)
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