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Title 38 — Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-73

§1705A Management of health care: information regarding health-plan contracts

Title 38 › Part PART II— - GENERAL BENEFITS › Chapter CHAPTER 17— - HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL › § 1705A

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

If you want hospital or medical care under this law, you must give the Secretary up-to-date information needed to find any health-plan contract that covers you. That information includes the name of the company that provides coverage, the policyholder’s name if it is someone else, the contract’s ID number, and the group code. The Secretary can take steps to get this information, but cannot deny care just because you don’t provide it. Health-plan contract — a term that is defined elsewhere in the law.

Full Legal Text

Title 38, §1705A

Veterans' Benefits — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)(1)Any individual who seeks hospital care or medical services under this chapter shall provide to the Secretary such current information as the Secretary may require to identify any health-plan contract under which such individual is covered.
(2)The information required to be provided to the Secretary under paragraph (1) with respect to a health-plan contract shall include, as applicable, the following:
(A)The name of the entity providing coverage under the health-plan contract.
(B)If coverage under the health-plan contract is in the name of an individual other than the individual required to provide information under this section, the name of the policy holder of the health-plan contract.
(C)The identification number for the health-plan contract.
(D)The group code for the health-plan contract.
(b)The Secretary may take such action as the Secretary considers appropriate to collect the information required under subsection (a).
(c)The Secretary may not deny any services under this chapter to an individual solely due to the fact that the individual fails to provide information required under subsection (a).
(d)In this section, the term “health-plan contract” has the meaning given that term in section 1725(h) of this title.

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Amendments

2022—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “section 1725(h)” for “section 1725(f)”.

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Citation

38 U.S.C. § 1705A

Title 38 — Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73