# Veterans Care Agreements
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2021-09-13 · Effective 2021-10-13 · 86 FR 50856
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-19470
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 50856
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2021-09-13
- **Effective date:** 2021-10-13
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with no substantive changes, an interim final rule revising its medical regulations to implement VA's authority under section 102 of the John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka, and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018 (MISSION Act), which authorizes VA to enter into agreements to furnish required hospital care, medical services, and extended care services in the community when such care and services are not feasibly available to certain individuals through a VA facility, a contract, or a sharing agreement. As specified in section 1703A and this implementing rule, these agreements are called Veterans Care Agreements (VCA).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/13/2021-19470/veterans-care-agreements)
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