Proposed Rule2025-20561
Exempting Whole Health Well-Being Services From Copayment
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Published
November 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing a document published in the Federal Register on January 3, 2025, that requested public comment on VA's proposal to revise its medical regulations to exempt Whole Health well-being services from the copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care and outpatient medical care. VA is withdrawing the proposed rule due to ongoing assessments of agency needs, priorities, and objectives.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 223 (Friday, November 21, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 52581-52582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20561]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
38 CFR Part 17
[Docket No. VA-2025-VHA-0004]
RIN 2900-AS23
Exempting Whole Health Well-Being Services From Copayment
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing a
document published in the Federal Register on January 3, 2025, that
requested public comment on VA's proposal to revise its medical
regulations to exempt Whole Health well-being services from the
copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care and outpatient
medical care. VA is withdrawing the proposed rule due to ongoing
assessments of agency needs, priorities, and objectives.
DATES: The proposed rule published at 90 FR 279 on January 3, 2025, is
withdrawn as of November 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The docket for this withdrawn proposed rule is available at
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov/docket/VA-2025-VHA-0004">www.regulations.gov/docket/VA-2025-VHA-0004</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Kavitha Reddy, Associate Director,
Employee Whole Health, Veterans Health Administration, (314) 312-8126.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a document published in the Federal
Register on January 3, 2025, VA proposed to exempt Whole Health well-
being services from the copayment requirements for inpatient hospital
care and outpatient medical care to further encourage veteran
utilization of these services. Whole Health well-being services, which
consist of Whole Health
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education and skill-building programs and complementary and integrative
health well-being services, are provided to veterans within the VA
Whole Health System of Care.
VA is withdrawing the proposed rule due to ongoing assessments of
agency needs, priorities, and objectives. VA appreciates the public
comments submitted and continues to consider the best means of
addressing some or all of the issues covered in the proposed rule. If,
in the future, VA decides it is appropriate to issue regulations on
this topic, VA will do so through a new notice of proposed rulemaking,
subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5
U.S.C. 551, et seq.
Signing Authority
Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved this
document on October 1, 2025, 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.
Joseph Montanye,
Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-20561 Filed 11-20-25; 8:45 am]
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