# Health Care Professionals Practicing Via Telehealth
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2025-10-02 · Effective 2025-11-03 · 90 FR 47595
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-19324
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 47595
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2025-10-02
- **Effective date:** 2025-11-03
- **Docket:** Docket No. VA-2022-VHA-0020
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes, a proposed rule to amend its medical regulations that govern VA's health care professionals who practice health care via telehealth. This final rule implements the authorities of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 and the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. This final rule enables VA to maximize health care resource utilization and provide safe and convenient national health care to veterans using telehealth. It also strengthens VA's role in supporting national and State responses to war, terrorism, national emergencies and natural disasters.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/02/2025-19324/health-care-professionals-practicing-via-telehealth)
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