Sec. 102. Funding for Veterans Choice Program
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All amounts required to carry out the Veterans Choice Program shall be derived from the appropriations account established in section 4003 of the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–41 ; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note). All amounts in the Veterans Choice Fund under section 802 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146 ; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note) shall be transferred to the appropriations account established in section 4003 of the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–41 ; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note).
Section 802 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146 ; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note) is repealed. Section 4003 of the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–41 ; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking to be comprised of and all that follows and inserting to be comprised of discretionary medical services funding that is designated for hospital care and medical services furnished at non-Department facilities .
Without regard to the requirements of sections 1501 and 1341(a)(1) of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary may record obligations under the Veteran Choice Program if the amount of the obligation is certain in order for the Department to avoid large deobligation amounts after the funds have expired. The Chief Business Office of the Veterans Health Administration may provide funds for a fiscal year to medical centers of the Department, if requested by the medical center, for costs relating to furnishing non-Department care under the Veterans Choice Program, including administrative costs associated with the management and accounting of such funds, and may adjust such funding if appropriate.
Medical centers of the Department may submit funding requests to the Chief Business Office for costs described in subparagraph (A). Funds provided under subparagraph
(A)may be used only for the costs specified in such subparagraph and are not eligible to be reprogrammed for any other purpose. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes the following: The amount of funds required to carry out the Veterans Choice Program for fiscal year 2017. The number of veterans, disaggregated by fiscal year, who received health care services under the programs, contracts, and agreements that make up the Veterans Choice Program during the period beginning on October 1, 2011, and ending on September 30, 2015. An evaluation of whether the accounting processes of the Department are sufficient to properly account for expenditures from a consolidated appropriations account under paragraph (1), including an identification of each known deficiency and potential deficiency of such processes. For each deficiency identified under clause (iii), a detailed plan to remedy the deficiency and an assessment of whether the Department has adequate resources to remedy the deficiency. For each deficiency identified under clause
(iii)that requires new or improved information technology to remedy, an evaluation of whether there is commercially available technology that may be suitable to remedy the deficiency. A cost estimate for remedying each deficiency identified under clause (iii). In this paragraph, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. In this subsection, the term Veterans Choice Program means— the program under section 1703A of title 38, United States Code, as added by section 101(a)(1); and the programs, contracts, and agreements of the Department consolidated under section 101(b).
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Funding for Veterans Choice Program
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