United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 38. VETERANS’ BENEFITS |
Part II. GENERAL BENEFITS |
Chapter 17. HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE |
SubChapter III. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME CARE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF VETERANS |
§ 1729A. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund
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(a) There is in the Treasury a fund to be known as the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund. (b) Amounts recovered or collected under any of the following provisions of law shall be deposited in the fund: (1) Section 1710(f) of this title. (2) Section 1710(g) of this title. (3) Section 1711 of this title. (4) Section 1722A of this title. (5) Section 1725 of this title. (6) Section 1729 of this title. (7) Section 1784 of this title. (8) Section 8165(a) of this title. (9) Section 113 of the Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106–117; 38 U.S.C. 8111 note). (10) Public Law 87–693, popularly known as the “Federal Medical Care Recovery Act” (42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq.), to the extent that a recovery or collection under that law is based on medical care or services furnished under this chapter. (c) (1) Subject to the provisions of appropriations Acts, amounts in the fund shall be available, without fiscal year limitation, to the Secretary for the following purposes: (A) Furnishing medical care and services under this chapter, to be available during any fiscal year for the same purposes and subject to the same limitations (other than with respect to the period of availability for obligation) as apply to amounts appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury for that fiscal year for medical care. (B) Expenses of the Department for the identification, billing, auditing, and collection of amounts owed the United States by reason of medical care and services furnished under this chapter. (2) Amounts available under paragraph (1) may not be used for any purpose other than a purpose set forth in subparagraph (A) or (B) of that paragraph. (d) Of the total amount recovered or collected by the Department during a fiscal year under the provisions of law referred to in subsection (b) and made available from the fund, the Secretary shall make available to each Department health care facility of the Department an amount that bears the same ratio to the total amount so made available as the amount recovered or collected by such facility during that fiscal year under such provisions of law bears to such total amount recovered or collected during that fiscal year. The Secretary shall make available to each facility the entirety of the amount specified to be made available to such facility by the preceding sentence. (e) Amounts recovered or collected under the provisions of law referred to in subsection (b) shall be treated for the purposes of sections 251 and 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901, 902) as offsets to discretionary appropriations (rather than as offsets to direct spending) to the extent that such amounts are made available for expenditure in appropriations Acts for the purposes specified in subsection (c).
References In Text
Public Law 87–693, popularly known as the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(10), is Pub. L. 87–693,
Amendments
2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–183, § 708(a)(2)(A), struck out “after
Subsec. (b)(8) to (10). Pub. L. 108–7 added pars. (8) and (9) and redesignated former par. (8) as (10).
Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 108–183, § 708(a)(2)(B), struck out par. (3) which related to duties of the Secretary for fiscal year 1998.
Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 108–183, § 708(a)(2)(C), (D), redesignated subsec. (f) as (e) and struck out former subsec. (e) which required the Secretary to submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives quarterly reports on the operation of the section for fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000 and for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001.
2002—Subsec. (b)(7), (8). Pub. L. 107–135 added par. (7) and redesignated former par. (7) as (8).
1999—Subsec. (b)(5) to (7). Pub. L. 106–117, § 111(b)(1), added par. (5) and redesignated former pars. (5) and (6) as (6) and (7), respectively.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–117, § 203, struck out par. (1) designation, substituted “each Department health care facility” for “each designated health care region” and “each facility” for “each region”, substituted “such facility” for “such region” in two places, and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: “In this subsection, the term ‘designated health care regions of the Department’ means the geographic areas designated by the Secretary for purposes of the management of, and allocation of resources for, health care services provided by the Department.”
Effective Date Of Amendment
Amendment by section 111(b)(1) of Pub. L. 106–117 effective 180 days after
Effective Date
Section effective
Miscellaneous
Pub. L. 112–154, title I, § 111,
Pub. L. 108–447, div. I, title I, § 115,
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act:
Pub. L. 108–199, div. G, title I, § 115,
Pub. L. 105–33, title VIII, § 8023(f),