# Authorization for Non-VA Medical Services
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2013-12-16 · Effective 2014-01-15 · 78 FR 76061
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-29311
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 76061
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2013-12-16
- **Effective date:** 2014-01-15
## Abstract

This Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rulemaking amends VA's regulations regarding payment by VA for medical services under VA's statutory authority for non-VA medical care. In the Federal Register on November 28, 2012, VA proposed to remove an outdated regulatory limitation on veterans' eligibility to be referred for non- VA medical care. On the same date, VA also published a companion direct final rule that would have made the same amendments effective on January 28, 2013, if no significant adverse comments were received. Because VA received adverse comments on the direct final rule, VA is withdrawing it in a companion document in this issue of the Federal Register. This rulemaking includes VA's responses to comments on the proposed and direct final rules.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/12/16/2013-29311/authorization-for-non-va-medical-services)
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