Notice2021-16627
Cost-Based and Inter-Agency Billing Rates for Medical Care or Services Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year 2022
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Published
August 4, 2021
Effective
October 1, 2021
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
This document updates the Cost-Based and Inter-Agency billing rates for medical care or services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnished in certain circumstances.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 147 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16627]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Cost-Based and Inter-Agency Billing Rates for Medical Care or
Services Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year
2022
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This document updates the Cost-Based and Inter-Agency billing
rates for medical care or services provided by the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) furnished in certain circumstances.
DATES: The rates set forth herein are effective October 1, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Debra Vatthauer, Office of
Community Care, Revenue Operations, Payer Relations and Services, Rates
and Charges (13RO1), Veterans Health Administration, Department of
Veterans Affairs, 128 Bingham Road, Suite 1000, Asheville, NC 28806;
telephone: 608-821-7346 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA's methodology for computing Cost-Based
and Inter-Agency rates for medical care or services provided by VA is
set forth in section 17.102(h) of title 38 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR). Two sets of rates are obtained by applying this methodology,
Cost-Based and Inter-Agency.
Cost-Based rates apply to medical care and services that are
provided by VA under 38 CFR 17.102(a), (b), (d) and (g), respectively,
in the following circumstances:
<bullet> In error or based on tentative eligibility;
<bullet> In a medical emergency;
<bullet> To pensioners of allied nations; and
<bullet> For research purposes in circumstances under which the
medical care appropriation shall be reimbursed from the research
appropriation.
Inter-Agency rates apply to medical care and services that are
provided by VA under Sec. 17.102(c) and (f), respectively, in the
following circumstances when the care or services provided are not
covered by any applicable sharing agreement in accordance with Sec.
17.102(e):
<bullet> To beneficiaries of the Department of Defense or other
Federal agencies; and
<bullet> To military retirees with chronic disability.
The calculations for the Cost-Based and Inter-Agency rates are the
same with two exceptions. Inter-Agency rates are all-inclusive and are
not broken down into three components (i.e., Physician; Ancillary; and
Nursing, Room and Board), and do not include standard fringe benefit
costs that cover Government employee retirement, disability costs, and
return on fixed assets.
The following table depicts the Cost-Based and Inter-Agency rates
that are effective October 1, 2021 and will remain in effect until the
next fiscal year Federal Register update. These rates supersede those
established by the Federal Register notice published on July 28, 2020,
at 85 FR 45471.
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Cost-based Inter-agency
rates rates
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A. Hospital Care per inpatient day
General Medicine:
All Inclusive Rate.............. $5,466 $5,318
Physician....................... 654 ..............
Ancillary....................... 1,424 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 3,388 ..............
Neurology:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 5,127 4,981
Physician....................... 751 ..............
Ancillary....................... 1,354 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 3,022 ..............
Rehabilitation Medicine:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 3,963 3,846
Physician....................... 450 ..............
Ancillary....................... 1,211 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 2,302 ..............
Blind Rehabilitation:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 2,933 2,843
Physician....................... 236 ..............
Ancillary....................... 1,457 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 1,240 ..............
Spinal Cord Injury:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 3,548 3,443
Physician....................... 440 ..............
Ancillary....................... 893 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 2,215 ..............
Surgery:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 9,756 9,490
Physician....................... 1,075 ..............
Ancillary....................... 2,959 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 5,722 ..............
General Psychiatry:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 2,875 2,788
Physician....................... 271 ..............
Ancillary....................... 453 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 2,151 ..............
Substance Abuse (Alcohol and Drug
Treatment):
All Inclusive Rate.............. 2,744 2,663
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Physician....................... 262 ..............
Ancillary....................... 635 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 1,847 ..............
Psychosocial Residential
Rehabilitation Program:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 358 348
Physician....................... 23 ..............
Ancillary....................... 38 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 297 ..............
Intermediate Medicine:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 3,269 3,179
Physician....................... 161 ..............
Ancillary....................... 480 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 2,628 ..............
Poly-trauma Inpatient:
All Inclusive Rate.............. 3,936 3,805
Physician....................... 447 ..............
Ancillary....................... 1,202 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.......... 2,287 ..............
B. Nursing Home Care, Per Day
All Inclusive Rate 1,750 1,698
Physician........................... 54 ..............
Ancillary........................... 237 ..............
Nursing Room and Board.............. 1,459 ..............
C. Outpatient Medical Treatments
Outpatient Visit (to include 506 493
Ineligible Emergency Dental Care)..
Outpatient Physical Medicine & 347 336
Rehabilitation Service Visit.......
Outpatient Poly-trauma/Traumatic 678 660
Brain Injury.......................
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Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved this
document on July 30, 2021, and authorized the undersigned to sign and
submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register for
publication electronically as an official document of the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator Office of Regulation Policy &
Management, Office of the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2021-16627 Filed 8-3-21; 8:45 am]
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