# 2025-15590: VA Smooths Outside Care Payments: Vets' Data Stays Safe

2025-15590, Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records, is a Federal Register notice from Veterans Affairs Department published 2025-08-15; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15590
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15590
- Title: Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Veterans Affairs Department
- Citation: 90 FR 39485
- Published: 2025-08-15
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

VA Smooths Outside Care Payments: Vets' Data Stays Safe

## Summary

The VA is updating its records system that tracks and pays for health care services veterans get outside the VA. This change helps make sure veterans’ benefits and payments are handled smoothly and accurately. If you’re a veteran or beneficiary using these services, these updates could affect how your info is managed, with no extra costs or delays expected.

## Abstract

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, notice is hereby given that VA is modifying the system of records titled, "Non-VA Care (Fee) Records-VA" (23VA10NB3). This system is used to establish, determine, and monitor eligibility to receive VA benefits and for authorizing and paying Non- VA health care services furnished to veterans and beneficiaries.

## Effects PRIA read

- VA updates Non‑VA Care records: benefit, low. If you are a veteran or beneficiary who gets health care outside the VA, the VA is modifying the system of records called "Non-VA Care (Fee) Records-VA" (23VA10NB3). This system is used to establish, determine, and monitor eligibility for VA benefits and to authorize and pay for Non‑VA health care…
- Updates affect how your info is managed: benefit, low. If you are a veteran or beneficiary using Non‑VA care, these updates could change how your personal information is managed in the VA system. The notice states these updates are intended to help ensure veterans’ benefits and payments are handled smoothly and accurately and that no extra costs or del…

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## Sources
- [2025-15590 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/15/2025-15590/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records)
- [2025-15590 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-15/pdf/2025-15590.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15590 (as of 2026-06-08).