[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22774-22965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10120]



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Part II





Department of Veterans Affairs





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38 CFR Part 17



Reasonable Charges for Medical Care or Services; 2003 Update; Notice 
and Interim Final Rule

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Reasonable Charges for Medical Care or Services; 2003 Update

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This document provides ``reasonable charges'' for medical care 
or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran:
    --For a nonservice-connected disability for which the veteran is 
entitled to care (or the payment of expenses of care) under a health 
plan contract;
    --For a nonservice-connected disability incurred incident to the 
veteran's employment and covered under a worker's compensation law or 
plan that provides reimbursement or indemnification for such care and 
services; or
    --For a nonservice-connected disability incurred as a result of a 
motor vehicle accident in a State that requires automobile accident 
reparations insurance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cleaver, Chief Business Office 
(161), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 
810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 254-0361. (This is 
not a toll free number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ``reasonable charges'' regulations for 
medical care and services (38 CFR 17.101), as amended by a companion 
document published in this issue of the Federal Register, have 
established the methodology for acute inpatient facility charges at 
Sec.  17.101(b), the methodology for skilled nursing facility/sub-acute 
inpatient facility charges at Sec.  17.101(c), the methodology for 
outpatient facility charges at Sec.  17.101(d), and the methodology for 
physician charges at Sec.  17.101(e). Using these methodologies, 
information for calculating actual charge amounts at individual VA 
facilities is set forth below and is effective until changed by a 
subsequent Federal Register notice.
    Previously, information on the data sources used to establish 
Relative Value Units (RVUs) for specified Current Procedural 
Terminology (CPT) codes was included in the regulations. We are now 
presenting this information in the applicable Federal Register notice. 
For this notice, the CPT codes to which this information applies are 
presented in Table F, Physician Nationwide RVUs and Conversion Factors 
for CPT Codes with Total RVUs Only, and Table I, Physician Nationwide 
RVUs and Conversion Factors for Pathology and Laboratory CPT Codes with 
Total RVUs Only. Information on the data sources used to establish RVUs 
for these CPT codes is presented in the Data Source columns in these 
tables. The meanings of the entries in these columns are fully 
described in the reasonable charges regulations at Sec.  17.101(a)(4) 
and Sec.  17.101(e).

    Approved: March 20, 2003.
Anthony J. Principi,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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