VA Dental Insurance Program--federalism. Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a direct final rule in the Federal Register on October 22, 2013, amending its regulations related to the VA Dental Insurance Program (VADIP), a pilot program to offer premium-based dental insurance to enrolled veterans and certain survivors and dependents of veterans. Specifically, this rule adds language to clarify the limited preemptive effect of certain criteria in the VADIP regulations. VA received no comments concerning this rule or its companion substantially identical proposed rule published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2013. This document confirms that the direct final rule became effective on December 23, 2013. In a companion document in this issue of the Federal Register, we are withdrawing as unnecessary the proposed rule.
D006801:Humans; D007347:Insurance, Dental / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D058014:Veterans Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*