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PREC 11-98 Priorities for Care Under VA’s New Patient Enrollment System
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PREC 11-98 Priorities for Care Under VA’s New Patient Enrollment System Citation: Vet. Aff. Op. Gen. Couns. Prec. 11-98, VAOPGCPREC 11-98, 1998 QUESTIONS PRESENTED: May a veteran with a catastrophic, nonservice-connected disability, whose income is above the means test threshold and who would otherwise be enrolled in priority group 7, be placed in priority group 4 in VA’s patient enrollment system on the basis of his or her catastrophic disability?
HELD The rules of statutory construction and associated case law support enrolling all catastrophically disabled veterans in enrollment category four, as directed by section 1705(a)(4), regardless of whether the veterans are mandatory or discretionary veterans for purposes of section 1710(a).
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