Title: Emergency Community Care Notification Time Adjustment Act of 2022
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Emergency Community Care Notification Time Adjustment Act of 2022
This bill modifies the Veterans Community Care Program by requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to deem as authorized emergency care or services provided by a non-VA provider to a covered veteran if the veteran (or an individual acting on the veteran's behalf) submits an application for such authorization by a deadline determined appropriate by the VA, which may not be earlier than 72 hours following the veteran's discharge from the facility. Covered veterans are those who are enrolled in the VA health care system or those who are not enrolled but are eligible for care due to a service-connected disability.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7186 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7186

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an extended 
    deadline for the submission of applications regarding emergency 
   treatment furnished in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
                  facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2022

    Mr. Mast (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Posey, Mr. Gosar, Ms. 
 Salazar, and Mr. Rosendale) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an extended 
    deadline for the submission of applications regarding emergency 
   treatment furnished in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
                  facilities, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Emergency Community Care 
Notification Time Adjustment Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. EXTENDED DEADLINE RELATING TO EMERGENCY TREATMENT IN NON-
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL FACILITIES.

    (a) Extended Deadline.--Section 1703(a)(3) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``A covered veteran'' and inserting ``(A) A 
        covered veteran''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(B) In the case of an emergency which existed at the time of 
admission of a covered veteran to a health care provider, the Secretary 
shall deem any care or services received by the veteran during the 
period beginning at the time of such admission and ending at the time 
of discharge from the facility at which such care or services were 
furnished to be authorized under subparagraph (A) if the covered 
veteran (or an individual acting on behalf of the covered veteran) 
submits an application for such authorization by a deadline that the 
Secretary determines appropriate for purposes of this paragraph, except 
that such deadline may not be earlier than 72 hours following such 
discharge.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to admissions occurring on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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