1. Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts may receive hospital and outpatient care provided for in the Medical Benefits Package.       
2. A veteran may receive certain types of VA hospital and outpatient care not included in the Medical Benefits Package such as humanitarian emergency care for which the individual will be billed, compensation and pension examinations, dental care, readjustment counseling, care as part of a VA-approved research project, seeing-eye or guide dogs, sexual trauma counseling and treatment, special registry examinations.       
3. A veteran may receive an examination to determine whether the veteran is catastrophically disabled and therefore eligible for inclusion in priority category 4.       
4. Non-enrolled veterans
   1. A veteran rated for service-connected disabilities at 50 percent or greater will receive VA hospital and outpatient care.       
   2. A veteran who has a service-connected disability will receive VA hospital care for that service-connected disability.       
   3. A veteran who was discharged or released from active military service for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty will receive VA hospital and outpatient care for that disability for the 12-month period following discharge or release.       
   4. When there is a compelling medical need to complete a course of VA treatment started when the veteran was enrolled in the VA health care system, a veteran will receive that treatment.       
   5. A veteran participating in VA's vocational rehabilitation will receive VA hospital and outpatient care.       
   6. A veteran may receive VA hospital and outpatient care based on factors other than veteran status e.g., a veteran who is a private-hospital patient and is referred to VA for a diagnostic test by that hospital under a sharing contract; a veteran who is a VA employee and is examined to determine physical or mental fitness to perform official duties; A Department of Defense retiree under a sharing agreement.       
   7. A veteran may receive VA hospital and outpatient care outside the United States, without regard to the veteran's citizenship, if necessary for treatment of a service-connected disability, or any disability associated with and held to be aggravating a service-connected disability or if the care is furnished to a veteran participating in a VA rehabilitation program.

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