Assistance program
VHA Outpatient Specialty Care
$58.6 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2023
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs, Department of, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 64.041
- What it does
- The intent is to account for Veterans Health Care spending and display the spending by Veteran residence
- Who benefits
- Management of health care: patient enrollment system (a) In managing the provision of hospital care and medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the Secretary, in accordance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe, shall establish and operate a system of annual patient enrollment. The Secretary shall manage the enrollment of veterans in accordance with the following priorities, in the order listed: (1) Veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 50 percent or greater. (2) Veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 30 percent or 40 percent. (3) Veterans who are former prisoners of war or who were awarded the Purple Heart, veterans who were awarded the medal of honor under section 3741, 6241, or 8741 of title 10 or section 491 of title 14, veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 10 percent or 20 percent, and veterans described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 1710(a)(2) of this title. (4) Veterans who are in receipt of increased pension based on a need of regular aid and attendance or by reason of being permanently housebound and other veterans who are catastrophically disabled. (5) Veterans not covered by paragraphs (1) through (4) who are unable to defray the expenses of necessary care as determined under section 1722(a) of this title. (6) All other veterans eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care under section 1710(a)(2) of this title.
- Who applies
- Management of health care: patient enrollment system (a) In managing the provision of hospital care and medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the Secretary, in accordance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe, shall establish and operate a system of annual patient enrollment. The Secretary shall manage the enrollment of veterans in accordance with the following priorities, in the order listed: (1) Veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 50 percent or greater. (2) Veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 30 percent or 40 percent. (3) Veterans who are former prisoners of war or who were awarded the Purple Heart, veterans who were awarded the medal of honor under section 3741, 6241, or 8741 of title 10 or section 491 of title 14, veterans with service-connected disabilities rated 10 percent or 20 percent, and veterans described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 1710(a)(2) of this title. (4) Veterans who are in receipt of increased pension based on a need of regular aid and attendance or by reason of being permanently housebound and other veterans who are catastrophically disabled. (5) Veterans not covered by paragraphs (1) through (4) who are unable to defray the expenses of necessary care as determined under section 1722(a) of this title. (6) All other veterans eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care under section 1710(a)(2) of this title.
- Authorized by
- Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010
- Program site
- http://www.va.gov ↗
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