Title: VREASA
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Reimbursement for Emergency Ambulance Services Act or VREASA
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat ambulance services as reimbursable emergency services in certain circumstances. Specifically, services are reimbursable when the ambulance request was made because of the sudden onset of a medical condition that would reasonably be expected to be hazardous to the individual in the absence of immediate medical attention.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2392 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2392

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the circumstances 
      under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall provide 
            reimbursement for emergency ambulance services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2019

 Mr. Cramer (for himself and Ms. Rosen) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the circumstances 
      under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall provide 
            reimbursement for emergency ambulance services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Reimbursement for Emergency 
Ambulance Services Act'' or the ``VREASA''.

SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR EMERGENCY 
              AMBULANCE SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1725(c) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(5) In delineating under paragraph (1)(B) the circumstances under 
which reimbursement may be made under this section for ambulance 
services for an individual, the Secretary shall treat such services as 
emergency services for which reimbursement may be made under this 
section if the Secretary determines that the request for ambulance 
services was made as a result of the sudden onset of a medical 
condition of such a nature that a prudent layperson who possesses an 
average knowledge of health and medicine--
            ``(A) would have reasonably expected that a delay in 
        seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous 
        to the life or health of the individual; or
            ``(B) could reasonably expect the absence of immediate 
        medical attention to result in placing the health of the 
        individual in serious jeopardy, the serious impairment of 
        bodily functions, or the serious dysfunction of any bodily 
        organ or part.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to ambulance services provided on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
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