Assistance program
Purchase Care Program
$76.9 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2023
- Agency
- Va Health Administration Center, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 64.029
- What it does
- The Veterans Health Administration Office of Community Care (VHA OCC) operates two main service lines; Delivery Operations and Revenue Operations, that support medical care delivery and services for Veterans and their families. VHA OCC is also responsible for functions that support these service lines such as administration, planning, oversight and stakeholder relations. Delivery Operations manages all of the programs that allow Veterans and their family members to receive care and services through community providers outside of VA (i.e. Veterans Choice Program and traditional community care) and manages Veteran and family member programs that pay for care outside of VA (i.e. Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) and Foreign Medical Program (FMP)). Revenue Operations manages the centralized processes that allow VA to collect revenue from private health insurance carriers for non-service connected care provided to insured Veterans. Funds that are collected go back to VA medical facilities to provide health care services to Veterans. VHA OCC is mainly responsible for managing back-end revenue cycle processes that take place at the seven Consolidated Patient Account Centers (CPACs) located across the country. Other functions of VHA OCC support and strengthen the effectiveness of its business lines. These include strategy, policy and planning, budget, workforce management, performance improvement and oversight, data integration, communications and stakeholder relations. Taken together, VHA OCC works closely with Veterans and their families, community providers, and VA staff to ensure Veterans can get care from community providers when needed, administers VHA’s beneficiary programs, and collects revenue from private health insurance carriers to provide additional financial support to VA medical facility operations.
- Who benefits
- As stated above under Applicant Eligibility.
- Who applies
- What follows is not a comprehensive listing of eligibility requirements. For detailed eligibility requirements the USC and CFR’s of each program should be consulted. For Veterans generally eligibility is established by evidence of service by DD Form 214 or through the Veterans Benefits Administration. Benefits provided are based on eligibility as established at 8 levels approved by the VHA Deputy Under Secretary for Health. For Non Veteran Beneficiaries eligibility is established by adjudication of the Sponsoring Veteran as Permanently and Totally disabled (P&T) (38 CFR 17.52(a)(1)(iii)) and that the Non Veteran Beneficiary is a dependant of the Veteran by the VBA and is eligible for Chapter 35 Benefits.
Committed by fiscal year
Recipients
This program's money is paid out as non-itemized direct payments — USAspending records it under a single aggregate, so individual recipients aren't listed. The dollars and agencies above are complete; the recipient roster isn't part of the public record for programs like this.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments