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VA DISABILITY EXAMS: Improved Performance Analysis and Training Oversight Needed for Contracted Exams

What GAO Found The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) has limited information on whether contractors who conduct disability compensation medical exams are meeting the agency's quality and timeliness targets. VBA contracted examiners have completed a growing number of exams in recent years (see figure). VBA uses completed exam reports to help determine if a veteran should … [Read more...] about VA DISABILITY EXAMS: Improved Performance Analysis and Training Oversight Needed for Contracted Exams

VA: Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability

Employee misconduct at VA's medical facilities can have serious consequences for veterans. We looked at how VA deals with employee misconduct and found several opportunities for improvement. For example: VA doesn't always maintain required files and documents for adjudication, suggesting that employees may not have received due process. VA officials found guilty of misconduct … [Read more...] about VA: Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability

Unwarranted Medical Reexaminations for Disability Benefits VA OIG 17-04966-201

Why the OIG Did This Review The OIG conducted this review to determine whether Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) employees required disabled veterans to submit to unwarranted medical reexaminations.1 VBA employees have authority to request reexaminations for veterans “whenever VA determines there is a need to verify either the continued existence or the current … [Read more...] about Unwarranted Medical Reexaminations for Disability Benefits VA OIG 17-04966-201

Audit of the Timeliness and Accuracy of Choice Payments Processed Through the Fee Basis Claims System – Dec 2017

This report covers the audit of payments made through VA’s Fee Basis Claims System (FBCS), encompassing claims paid via that payment process from November 1,  2014  through  September 30, 2016. A subsequent report will contain the results of an audit conducted to assess VA’s processing of payments through a “bulk payment” process during 2016 and 2017. The Executive Summary … [Read more...] about Audit of the Timeliness and Accuracy of Choice Payments Processed Through the Fee Basis Claims System – Dec 2017

VA Contracting: Improvements in Buying Medical and Surgical Supplies Could Yield Cost Savings and Efficiency

Last year VA launched a new program to streamline purchasing supplies for their medical centers. As GAO lays out what the VA needed to do for the program to be successful A strong strategic plan Stable leadership Good communications Stakeholder buy-in GAO found Veterans Affairs was missing these elements when it launched the program; as a result, the program … [Read more...] about VA Contracting: Improvements in Buying Medical and Surgical Supplies Could Yield Cost Savings and Efficiency

VA failed to report 90% of potentially dangerous medical providers, GAO confirms

We aren't asking for state of the art care, we are asking for quality competent care. History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes, how many times must our service be so devalued. Do we not deserve to receive the quality care we were promised, is the nations word no good to it's own veterans. That should not be a stretch, it shouldn't be that hard. GAO found VA officials slow … [Read more...] about VA failed to report 90% of potentially dangerous medical providers, GAO confirms

VA Inspector General: Improper wait list used for Colorado vets’ mental health care

As some of you may know there are 3 kinds of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics and the VA uses them all. Once again we can thank a whistleblower for bring this to our attention. Even with CHOICE in place due to the VA creating fake wait lists to make their numbers look better than they were and damn the veterans who suffer. It continues at the Denver Veterans … [Read more...] about VA Inspector General: Improper wait list used for Colorado vets’ mental health care

Have you tried going to the Vet Center ? I did and I’m glad.

I haven't been to the Vet Center in a few years. My therapist there transferred and I moved to the civilian sector. The transition from one to the other was about as seamless as I could have hoped for thanks to my Vet Center therapist. She set me up for success with my new therapist and with myself. I had been in regular therapy since 1991 in California but in 1998 I moved to … [Read more...] about Have you tried going to the Vet Center ? I did and I’m glad.