Veterans Affairs Peer Review Neutrality Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Gary Peters
In Committee
Summary
Eliminate conflicts of interest in VA peer review. This bill would require anyone conducting or sitting on a peer review to step aside if they directly took part in the care under review or cannot be objective, and it directs certain initial reviews to a neutral peer review committee at another VA facility.
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- Veterans and patients: Quality reviews of care would be evaluated by impartial reviewers, including sending some initial reviews to a neutral committee at a different VA facility.
- VA health care providers: Staff who directly treated a case or who cannot conduct an objective review must withdraw from that peer review.
- VA medical facilities: Each facility must develop procedures and guidelines to enforce recusal rules and to assign affected initial reviews to a neutral peer review committee elsewhere.
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Neutral peer reviews for VA care
This bill would require each VA medical facility to adopt procedures so peer reviewers must withdraw if they directly participated in the care under review or cannot be objective. It would require that when an initial review involves care by a provider who is a member of the facility's peer review committee, a neutral peer review committee at another VA facility would evaluate, discuss, and assign the final-level review. Facilities would need written procedures and guidelines to implement these rules. The requirement would take effect upon enactment. No specific funding or numeric thresholds are specified in the text provided.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Gary Peters
MI • D
Cosponsors
John Boozman
AR • R
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 12/2/2025
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