§7330B Annual report on Veterans Health Administration and furnishing of hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care

Summary

By March 1 of each year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees about the prior calendar year. The report must cover how the VA provided hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care and how the Veterans Health Administration ran those programs. Each report must evaluate how well the VA increased veterans’ access to care and how well it improved care quality without raising costs for the federal government or veterans. It must show quality information separately for each VA medical center and each Veterans Integrated Service Network. The report must also assess workload, patient demographics and use, physician pay, staff productivity, the share of care given inside VA versus outside VA and how that changed from the year before, drug prices, and third‑party bills the VA is owed, with totals and amounts collected shown separately for claims greater than $1,000 and for claims $1,000 or less. The terms used are defined in section 1701.