64.009: Veterans Medical Care Benefits
Alternate Name: Hospitalization and Medical Services
Overview
Program Number
64.009
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
Sept. 12, 2017
Date Posted
June 16, 2008
Objective
To provide outpatient medical services, hospital care, medicines and supplies to eligible veterans in receipt of VA health care.
Type of Assistance
Z - Salaries and Expenses
Applicant Eligibility
Must have enlisted in the armed forces before September 7, 1980. Veterans who enlisted in the armed forces after September 7, 1980, or entered on active duty after October 16, 1981, must have 24 continuous months of active duty service or completed the full period of time for which the individual was called or ordered to active duty. In either case the individual must have been discharged or released from active duty under conditions other than dishonorable. Must be enrolled in the VA health care system or have: A VA service- connected rating of 50 percent or greater, an adjudicated service- connected disability; or been recently discharged from the military (within the past 12 months) for a disability the military determined was incurred or aggravated in the line of duty. When approved by the VA and at the Department of Defense request, active duty personnel may be transferred to/from a military hospital to a VA health care facility.
Beneficiary Eligibility
Dental care may be provided for those veterans: (1) Who have a service-connected compensable dental disability or condition; (2) who have a service-connected, non-compensable dental condition or disability and were former prisoners of war; (3) who have a service-connected, non-compensable condition or disability resulting from combat wounds or service trauma; (4) who were held prisoner of war for a period of not less than 90 days; (5) who have a service-connected disability rated as total; (6) who have been found in need of training authorized under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 31; (7) who have a dental condition which is having a direct and material detrimental effect upon a service- connected condition; (8) who have service-connected, non-compensable disability and who apply for treatment of such condition within 90 days following discharge or release for active duty during the Persian Gulf War, 90 days (treatment under this latter authority is limited to one- time correction of the service-connected dental condition); and (9) those receiving outpatient or scheduled for inpatient care may receive dental care if the dental condition is clinically determined to be complicating a medical condition currently under treatment.
Related Programs
Grant Awards
Veterans Medical Care Benefits direct grants
Grant Opportunities