§7330B Annual Report on Veterans Health Administration and Furnishing of Hospital Care, Medical Services, and Nursing Home Care

Summary

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs must send a report to the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees by March 1 in each year from 2018 through 2022. Each report covers the previous calendar year and must describe how the VA provided hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care and how the Veterans Health Administration managed that care. Each report must evaluate how well the VA increased veterans’ access to care and improved care quality without raising costs, with separate information for each medical center and each Veterans Integrated Service Network. It must also review staff workloads, patient numbers and use, doctor pay and productivity, the share of care given inside VA versus outside and changes from the prior year, drug prices, and third-party health bills owed and collected, shown separately for claims over $1,000 and claims $1,000 or less. The terms for types of care and facility categories are defined in section 1701.