# 2024-31494: VA Proposes Free Yoga and Meditation for Veterans

2024-31494, Exempting Whole Health Well-Being Services From Copayment, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-03 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31494
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31494
- Title: Exempting Whole Health Well-Being Services From Copayment
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-03
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

VA Proposes Free Yoga and Meditation for Veterans

## Summary

The VA wants to make Whole Health well-being services free for Veterans by removing copayments for these special programs that help improve their overall health. This change affects all Veterans using VA inpatient and outpatient care and aims to make it easier and cheaper to get these helpful services. Comments on this proposal are open until March 4, 2025, so Veterans and others can share their thoughts before it becomes final.

## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to revise its medical regulations to exempt Whole Health well-being services from the copayment requirements for inpatient hospital care and outpatient medical care. These Whole Health well-being services, which consist of Whole Health education and skill-building programs and complementary and integrative health well-being services, are provided to Veterans within the VA Whole Health System of Care to improve Veterans' overall health and well-being.

## Effects PRIA read

No economic effects identified for this document.

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## Sources
- [2024-31494 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/03/2024-31494/exempting-whole-health-well-being-services-from-copayment)
- [2024-31494 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-03/pdf/2024-31494.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31494 (as of 2026-06-11).