[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: 38CFR17.50]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 17_MEDICAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 17.50  Use of Department of Defense, Public Health Service or 

other Federal hospitals with beds allocated to the Department of 
Veterans Affairs.

    Hospital facilities operated by the Department of Defense or the 
Public Health Service (or any other agency of the United States 
Government) may be used for the care of Department of Veterans Affairs 
patients pursuant to agreements between the Department of Veterans 
Affairs and the department or agency operating the facility. When such 
an agreement has been entered into and a bed allocation for Department 
of Veterans Affairs patients has been provided for in a specific 
hospital covered by the agreement, care may be authorized within the bed 
allocation for any veteran eligible under 38 U.S.C. 1710 or 38 CFR 
17.44. Care in a Federal facility not operated by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, however, shall not be authorized for any military 
retiree whose sole basis for eligibility is under Sec. 17.46b, or, 
except in Alaska and Hawaii, for any retiree of the uniformed services 
suffering from a chronic disability whose entitlement is under Sec. 
17.46b, Sec. 17.47(b)(2) or Sec.  17.47(c)(2) regardless of whether he 
or she may have dual eligibility under other provisions of Sec. 17.47.

[39 FR 1842, Jan. 15, 1974, as amended at 45 FR 6936, Jan. 31, 1980, as 
amended at 61 FR 21966, May 13, 1996]