[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR17.34]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 17--MEDICAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 17.34  Tentative eligibility determinations.

    Subject to the provisions of Secs. 17.36 through 17.38, when an 
application for hospital care or other medical services, except 
outpatient dental care, has been filed which requires an adjudication as 
to service connection or a determination as to any other eligibility 
prerequisite which cannot immediately be established, the service 
(including transportation) may be authorized without further delay if it 
is determined that eligibility for care probably will be established. 
Tentative eligibility determinations under this section, however, will 
only be made if:
    (a) In emergencies. The applicant needs hospital care or other 
medical services in emergency circumstances, or
    (b) For persons recently discharged from service. The application 
was filed within 6 months after date of honorable discharge from a 
period of not less than 6 months of active duty.

[35 FR 6586, Apr. 24, 1970. Redesignated at 61 FR 21965, May 13, 1996, 
as amended at 64 FR 54212, Oct. 6, 1999]

 Hospital or Nursing Home Care and Medical Services in Foreign Countries