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Schedule for Rating Disabilities: Infectious Diseases, Immune Disorders, and Nutritional Deficiencies
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is correcting a proposed rule to amend the section of the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD or Rating Schedule) that addresses i...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
VA is correcting its proposed rule, Schedule for Rating Disabilities: Infectious Diseases, Immune Disorders, and Nutritional Deficiencies, that published February 5, 2019, in the
Federal Register
at 84 FR 1678.
Corrections
In proposed rule FR Doc. 2019-00636 beginning on page 1678 in the issue of February 5, 2019, make the following corrections.
1. On page 1689, beginning in the first column, correct amendatory instruction number 5 to read as follows:
5. Amend appendix B to part 4 by:
a. Revising the entries for diagnostic codes 6300 and 6305;
b. Adding in numerical order an entry for diagnostic code 6312;
c. Revising the entry for diagnostic code 6317;
d. Adding in numerical order entries for diagnostic codes 6325, 6326, 6329 through 6331, and 6333 through 6335; and
e. Revising the entry for diagnostic code 6354.
The revisions and additions read as follows:
2. On page 1689, in the amendatory text for Appendix B to Part 4, remove the diagnostic code “6351 HIV-related infection” and correct the diagnostic code “6356” to read “6354”.
3. On page 1690, in the amendatory table for Appendix C to Part 4, the entry “Nontuberculosis mycobacterial infection-Diagnostic code 6312 should be listed before Nontyphoid salmonella infection Diagnostic code 6333”.
Approved: February 7, 2019.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy & Management, Office of the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.