Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Real Choice for Veterans Act”.
Real Choice for Veterans Act
A BILL
To amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to clarify the distance requirements regarding the eligibility of certain veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.
Sec. 2 Clarification of distance requirement
Section 101(b)(2)(B) of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (38 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking “medical facility” and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting the following: “closest medical facility of the Department, including a community-based outpatient clinic, that is able to provide to the veteran the care and services that the veteran seeks;”.