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(202) 461–6643. (This is not a toll-free 

number.) 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document 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. Jose 

D. Riojas, Chief of Staff, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, approved this 

document on January 30, 2015, for 

publication. 

Dated: January 30, 2015. 

Michael P. Shores, 

Chief Impact Analyst, Office of Regulation 

Policy & Management, Office of the General 

Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02229 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Publication of Wait-Times for the 

Department for the Veterans Choice 

Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In keeping with its 

commitment to improve transparency, 

the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) 

publishes wait-times for the scheduling 

of appointments in each VA facility for 

primary care, specialty care, and mental 

health services every two weeks. The 

Department also publishes a Federal 

Register Notice every 90 days with the 

address of the Web site where this waittime data can be accessed. This Federal 

Register Notice announces the 

availability of the data on that Web site. 

ADDRESSES: The wait-time data for all 

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) 

medical centers and clinics is available 

on the following Web site: http://

www.va.gov/health/access-audit.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Kristin J. Cunningham, Director, 

Business Policy (10NB6), Chief Business 

Office, Veterans Health Administration, 

810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20420 Telephone: (202) 382–2508. 

(This is not a toll-free number.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

206 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and 

Accountability Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 

113–146, ‘‘the Act’’) directs the 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 

not later than 90 days after the date of 

the enactment of the Act, to publish in 

the Federal Register, and on a publiclyaccessible Internet Web site of each VA 

Medical Center, the wait-times for the 

scheduling of an appointment in each 

VA facility by a veteran for the receipt 

of primary care, specialty care, and 

hospital care and medical services based 

on the general severity of the condition 

of the veteran. Whenever the wait-times 

for the scheduling of such an 

appointment change, the Secretary is 

also required to publish the revised 

wait-times on a publicly-accessible 

Internet Web site of each VA Medical 

Center not later than 30 days after such 

change, and in the Federal Register not 

later than 90 days after such change. 

The Department publishes wait-times 

for the scheduling of appointments in 

each VA facility for primary care, 

specialty care, and mental health 

services every two weeks. VA also 

publishes a Federal Register Notice 

every 90 days to notify the public of the 

availability of this wait-time data. This 

wait-time data uses the Veteran’s 

preferred date or the clinically 

appropriate date for scheduling an 

appointment. 

This Federal Register Notice 

announces the publication of the most 

recent wait-times of VHA for primary 

care and specialty care as required by 

section 206 of the Act, and well as 

mental health care wait-times. The waittime data report, which also includes 

data at the Community-Based 

Outpatient Clinic level for all VA 

facilities, can be found using the 

following link: http://www.va.gov/

health/access-audit.asp. 

VA continues working to develop an 

accurate method for tracking and 

reporting wait times for hospital care 

and medical services and will begin 

reporting that data as soon as it is 

available. 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document 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. Jose 

D. Riojas, Chief of Staff, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, approved this 

document on January 30, 2015, for 

publication. 

Dated: January 30, 2015 

Michael P. Shores, 

Chief Impact Analyst, Office of Regulation 

Policy & Management, Office of the General 

Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02205 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

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