{"id":710993,"date":"2025-11-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=710993"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:21:13","slug":"va-to-begin-copayments-for-whole-health-well-being-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=710993","title":{"rendered":"VA to begin copayments for whole health well-being services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Oct. 1, 2025, VA will update its billing practices for Whole Health well-being services to ensure consistency with federal law. Veterans in Priority Groups 6, 7 and 8, who are already responsible for outpatient copayments, will now pay a $15 copayment for Whole Health well-being services billed under Stop Code 139.<\/p>\n<p>This change applies only to Veterans who are already subject to outpatient copayments. Veterans exempt from copayments\u2014such as those with service-connected conditions rated 50% or higher, those receiving care for a service-connected condition, or those meeting other statutory exemptions\u2014will not be affected.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is changing?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whole Health well-being services, including guided imagery, meditation, yoga for well-being, tai chi\/qigong and health coaching, will carry a $15 copayment.<\/li>\n<li>The change is being applied uniformly across VA facilities to ensure compliance with federal regulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is not changing?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whole Health services are not being reduced or eliminated.<\/li>\n<li>Veterans exempt from copayments remain exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Complementary and Integrative Health treatments, such as acupuncture and clinical hypnosis, continue under existing billing practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is VA making this change?<\/h2>\n<p>Since 2017, Whole Health well-being services have been set as non-billable. A proposed regulation to exempt them was published in January 2025 but later withdrawn. VA is now updating its billing practices to align with statutory requirements.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where can I get more information?<\/h2>\n<p>Veterans with questions or concerns should contact their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/find-locations\/\">local VA Medical Center\u2019s<\/a> Patient Advocate or a finance representative who can explain how the change applies and review eligibility for copayment exemptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Oct. 1, 2025, VA will update its billing practices for Whole Health well-being services to ensure consistency with federal law. Veterans in Priority Groups 6, 7 and 8, who are already responsible for outpatient copayments, will now pay a $15 copayment for Whole Health well-being services billed under Stop Code 139. This change applies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":657500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808,5,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copayments","category-health","category-whole-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710994,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710993\/revisions\/710994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/657500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}