{
  "@type": "dcat:Dataset",
  "accessLevel": "non-public",
  "bureauCode": [
    "029:15"
  ],
  "contactPoint": {
    "@type": "vcard:Contact",
    "fn": "VHA Open Data",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:vhaopendata@va.gov"
  },
  "description": "<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) pays for care provided to VA beneficiaries in non-VA hospitals through its contract hospitalization program as mandated by Congress in the late 1980s. The Non-VA Hospital System (NVH) software captures the patient's Demographics, Provider, Hospital Name and Location, Medicare Provider Number, Diagnoses and Procedures for which the patient received care during his/her inpatient stay. The data is received from either the patient or the medical center providing the care (normally on a UB-92 form). The billing office employee enters the information into Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture and sends information to the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC). The non-VA hospitals are reimbursed at Medicare rates based on the Prospective System (PPS). PPS uses the appropriate Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs). Each DRG has a different rate-adjusted reimbursement based on the regional and urban/rural designation of the provider non-VA Hospitals. NVH is housed at the AITC and uses software developed by the AITC in conjunction with 3M and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It is a batch system written in Common Business Oriented Language, ALC, and Statistical Analysis Software. Processing occurs daily.</p>",
  "identifier": "VA-VHA-CBO-008",
  "issued": "2019-09-12",
  "keyword": [
    "basis",
    "drg",
    "fee",
    "inpatient",
    "medicare",
    "npi",
    "nva",
    "patient",
    "provider",
    "va",
    "veteran"
  ],
  "landingPage": "https://www.data.va.gov/d/5t5i-ahbe",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "modified": "2026-08-11",
  "programCode": [
    "029:040"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "Department of Veterans Affairs"
  },
  "rights": "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.",
  "systemOfRecords": "https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf",
  "temporal": "1975-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z",
  "title": "Non-VA Hospital System (NVH)"
}