Veterans Health Care Freedom Act
Sponsored By: Representative Biggs (AZ)
In Committee
Summary
Expands veterans' ability to choose health providers. This bill would create a three-year VA pilot that lets enrolled veterans pick any provider inside a defined covered care system and would phase many of those expanded choices into law after four years.
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- Veterans: Eligible veterans would pick a primary care provider inside the covered care system who coordinates hospital, medical, and extended care and may refer them to specialty or mental health providers as needed.
- Administration and oversight: The pilot is run by the VA's Center for Innovation for Care and Payment in at least four geographically diverse Veterans Integrated Service Networks and requires quarterly reports in the first two years and annual reports after that. The VA must carry out the pilot with amounts otherwise available; no new appropriations are authorized.
- Network and access rules: Beginning four years after enactment, certain statutory restrictions on community care and Veterans Care Agreements would be phased out and veterans could receive care at VA facilities regardless of VISN boundaries when allowed by the new framework.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Permanent cross‑VISN and provider choice
If enacted, starting four years after enactment the VA would have to let veterans covered under chapter 17 get hospital, medical, and extended care at any VA facility, even if it is in another VISN. The VA would also apply the pilot's provider-choice rules to community care and Veterans Care Agreements and would not have to follow certain statutory limits when furnishing such care. These changes would expand where covered veterans can receive VA and community care.
VA pilot to expand provider choice
If enacted, the VA would run a three-year pilot starting one year after enactment. Enrolled veterans in selected VA regions could opt in. You could choose hospital, medical, extended, mental health, and specialty providers inside a defined covered care system. You would pick a primary care provider to coordinate care and referrals. The VA could use non-VA facilities and waive some rules for the pilot. The VA must report to Congress and use existing Veterans Health Administration funds (no new money authorized).
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Biggs (AZ)
AZ • R
Cosponsors
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Webster (FL)
FL • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Salazar
FL • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Gosar
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Luna
FL • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Brecheen
OK • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
Buchanan
FL • R
Sponsored 1/7/2025
Miller (IL)
IL • R
Sponsored 1/7/2025
Hageman
WY • R
Sponsored 1/13/2025
Tiffany
WI • R
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Rulli
OH • R
Sponsored 2/4/2025
Van Drew
NJ • R
Sponsored 2/4/2025
Harris (NC)
NC • R
Sponsored 2/14/2025
Roll Call Votes
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