---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1703G"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1703G"
heading: "Quarterly report on referrals for non-Department health care"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1703G"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §1703G. Quarterly report on referrals for non-Department health care


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall submit to the Committees on [Veterans](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1)’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a quarterly report containing, with respect to referrals for non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care originating from a medical facility of the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) during the quarter preceding the date of the submission of the report, a measurement of, for each such medical facility—

- (1) the period of time between—
  - (A) the date on which a clinician employed by the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) determines that a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) requires care, or a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) presents to the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) requesting care, and the date on which the referral for care is sent to a non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care provider;
  - (B) the date on which such referral is sent to a non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care provider and the date on which such non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care provider accepts such referral;
  - (C) the date on which such non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care provider accepts such referral and the date on which such referral is completed;
  - (D) the date on which such referral is completed and the date on which an appointment with a non-[Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) health care provider is made; and
  - (E) the date on which such an appointment is made and the date on which such appointment occurs; and
- (2) any other period of time that the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) determines necessary.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–210, title I, § 140(a), Jan. 2, 2025, 138 Stat. 2743.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 118–210, title I, § 140(b), Jan. 2, 2025, 138 Stat. 2744, provided that: “The first report under section 1703G [38 U.S.C. 1703G], as added by this section, shall be due not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section [Jan. 2, 2025].”