[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR17.43]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 17_MEDICAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  17.43  Persons entitled to hospital or domiciliary care.

    Hospital or domiciliary care may be provided:
    (a) Not subject to the eligibility provisions of 38 U.S.C. 1710, 
1722, and 1729, and 38 CFR 17.44 and 17.45, for:
    (1) Persons in the Armed Forces when duly referred with 
authorization therefor, may be furnished hospital care. Emergency 
treatment may be rendered, without obtaining formal authorization, to 
such persons upon their own application, when absent from their 
commands. Identification of active duty members of the uniformed 
services will be made by military identification card.
    (2) Hospital care may be provided, upon authorization, for 
beneficiaries of the Public Health Service, Office of Workers' 
Compensation Programs, and other Federal agencies.
    (3) Pensioners of nations allied with the United States in World War 
I and World War II may be supplied hospital care when duly authorized.
    (b) Emergency hospital care may be provided for:
    (1) Persons having no eligibility, as a humanitarian service.
    (2) Persons admitted because of presumed discharge or retirement 
from the Armed Forces, but subsequently found to be ineligible as such.
    (3) Employees (not potentially eligible as ex-members of the Armed 
Forces) and members of their families, when residing on reservations of 
field facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and when they 
cannot feasibly obtain emergency treatment from private facilities.
    (c) Hospital care when incidental to, and to the extent necessary 
for, the use of a specialized Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
resource pursuant to a sharing agreement entered into under Sec.  
17.210, may be authorized for any person designated by the other party 
to the agreement as a patient to be benefited under the agreement.
    (d) The authorization of services under any provision of this 
section, except services for eligible veterans, is subject to charges as 
required by Sec.  17.101.

[23 FR 6498, Aug. 22, 1958, as amended at 24 FR 8327, Oct. 14, 1959; 32 
FR 6841, May 4, 1967; 34 FR 9340, June 13, 1969; 35 FR 6586, Apr. 24, 
1970; 39 FR 32606, Sept. 10, 1974. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 
21965, 21966, May 13, 1996; 64 FR 54218, Oct. 6, 1999]