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UNIl ED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFIC
REGIONAL OFFICE
ROOM 1903 JOHN F KENNEDY FEDERAL BUILDING
GOVERNMENT CENTER
BOSTON, MASSACHUSn-rs 02203
AUG 5 -a7
Mr. John V. Sheehan
Hospital and Medical District Director
Boston Veterans Administration Hospital
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
Dear Mr. Sheehan:
We recently surveyed the outpatient medical and dental programs
at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital (BVAH), Jamaica Plain, p-t2
' Massachusetts and the Boston Independent Outpatient Clinic (BIOC),
Boston, Massachusetts, and assessed the scope of the fee dental pro-
gram through which veterans receive dental care from private dentists.
BACKGROUND
Title 38 U.S.C., -Chapter 17, section 612(b), as amended by Public
Law 93-82, provides -that outpatient -dental services and treatment, and
related dental appliances, be furnished only to veterans of the Spanish-
American War or Tndian Wars or to veterans with a dental condition or
disability-
(1) which is service-connected and compensable in degree;
(2) which is service-connected, but not compensable in degree,
but only (A) if it is shown to have been in existence at
time of discharge or release from active military, naval,
or air service- and- (B) if app-hcation-for treatment is
made -within one year-after -such discharge or release,
except that if a disqualifying discharge or release
has been corrected by competent authority, application
may be made within one year after the date of correction
or the date of enactment of this exception, whichever
is later;
(3) which is a service-connected dental condition or disa-
bility due to combat wounds or other service trauma, or
of a former prisoner of war; or
(4) which is associated with and is aggravating a disability
resulting from some other disease or injury which was
incurred in or aggravated by active military, naval or
air service.
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