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RIN: 2900-AI60

Publication ID: Spring 1997

Title: ●Sensori-Neural AIDS Eligibility
Abstract: This Interim Final Rule provides that VA will furnish needed Sensori-Neural AIDS to the following veterans: (1) Those with a compensable service-connected disability (2) Those who are former prisoners of war. (3) Those in receipts of benefits under 38 USC 1151. (4) Those in receipt of increased pension based on the need for regular aid and attendance or by reason of being permanently housebound. (5) Those who have a visual or hearing impairment that resulted from the existence of another medical condition for which the veteran is receiving VA care, or which resulted from treatment of that medical condition. (6) Those with a significant functional or cognitive impairment evidenced by deficiencies in the ability to perform activities of daily living, but not including routinely occurring visual or hearing impairments; and (7) Those visually or hearing impaired so severely that the provision of sensori-neural aids is necessary to permit active participation in their own medical treatment.
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs(VA)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 38 CFR 17
Legal Authority: PL 104-262 38 USC 501(a) 38 USC 1721 38 USC 1701

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Other	Statutory	PL 104-262, Sec 103, Required VA to establish guidelines for the provision of a sensori-neural aids by 11/8/96, VHA Directive published 11/7/96.	11/08/1996

Additional Information: VA will furnish needed hearing aids to those veterans who have service-connected hearing disabilities rated 0 percent (0%) if there is organic, conductive, mixed or sensory hearing impairment and loss of pure tone hearing sensitivity in the low, mid, or high frequency range or a combination of frequency ranges which contribute to a loss of communication ability; however, hearing aids are to be provided only as needed for the service-connected hearing disability.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Frederick Downs Jr. Chief, Consultant, Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Strategic Healthcare Group Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420 Phone:202 273-8515