California Code of Regulations
Title 12 - Military and Veterans Affairs
Division 2 - Department of Veterans Affairs
Chapter 4 - Veterans' Home of California
Section 500 - Definitions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) "Cost of care in excess of the member fee" means the difference between all member account cost items and member account cost offset items as defined herein. The cost of care in excess of the member fee constitutes the unreimbursed cost of care.
(b) "Period of stay" means any time a member is admitted to the California Veterans Home system on or after January 1, 1984, regardless of continuity of stay.
(c) "Member account cost items" means the sum of all room and board charges, outside medical expenditures and other medical expenditures incurred during a members period of stay at any California Veterans Home.
(d) "Member account cost offset items" means any payments received by the Home to offset the cost of care rendered to the member, including, Member Fees, Aid and Attendance payments, USDVA Per Diem and funds received from outside sources.
(e) "Income" means the annual proceeds, both earned and unearned, from the following sources:
1. Change without regulatory effect amending section and NOTE filed 5-30-96 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 96, No. 22).
2. Change without regulatory effect removing subchapter 1 heading, renumbering former section 500 to section 501 and renumbering former section 506 to new section 500 filed 9-27-2018 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2018, No. 39).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1012.3 and 1035.6(b), Military and Veterans Code. Reference: Sections 1012.3, 1035, 1035.05 and 1035.6, Military and Veterans Code.