The program provides outpatient medical services, hospital care, medicines and supplies to eligible veterans in receipt of VA health care. Hospital care includes: (1) Medical services rendered in the course of the hospitalization of any eligible veteran; (2) for certain eligible veterans, an established rate of travel, currently 11 cents a mile with a deductible imposed; (3) when medically indicated, payment for specialized modes of transportation, such as by ambulance, of any veteran with a service-connected disability or receiving, or eligible to receive, VA pension, or whose income does not exceed the applicable maximum annual VA pension rate; (4) such mental health services, consultations, professional counseling, and training of an eligible veteran or members of the immediate family as may be necessary or appropriate to the effective treatment and rehabilitation of the veteran; and (5) medical services rendered an eligible dependent of a veteran totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected disability or the widow, widower or child of a veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability, or who at the time of death had total disability permanent in nature, resulting from a service-connected disability, or who is the surviving spouse or child of a person who died while on active duty and is not eligible for Civilian Health and Medical program of the Uniform Service (CHAMPUS), Medicare, or under the Civilian Health and Medical program, Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA). The size of funding for the program is $26,500,000.

The statutory language pertaining to transportation provisions within this program is found within the following citation(s): 

38 U.S.C. § 111