# Expanded Access to Non-VA Care Through the Veterans Choice Program
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2015-10-29 · Effective 2015-10-29 · 80 FR 66419
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-27481
- **Category:** va-healthcare
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 66419
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2015-10-29
- **Effective date:** 2015-10-29
## Abstract

This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations implementing section 101 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, which directed VA to establish a program to furnish hospital care and medical services through eligible non-VA health care providers to eligible veterans who either cannot be seen within the wait-time goals of the Veterans Health Administration or who qualify based on their place of residence (hereafter referred to as the "Veterans Choice Program", or the "Program"). VA published an interim final rule implementing the Veterans Choice Program on November 5, 2014, and published a subsequent interim final rule making further amendments on April 24, 2015. This final rule responds to public comments received from both interim final rules and amends the regulations to modify payment rates under the Program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/29/2015-27481/expanded-access-to-non-va-care-through-the-veterans-choice-program)
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