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

Summary

The Secretary 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. It must describe how the VA provided hospital, medical, and nursing home care and how the Veterans Health Administration ran those services. Each report must say 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 give separate information for each VA medical center and each Veterans Integrated Service Network. The report must also assess doctor and staff workload, patient makeup and use rates, doctor pay, staff productivity, the share of care given in VA versus non-VA facilities and how that changed from the prior year, drug prices, and third-party health billings owed to the VA (total billed and total collected), shown separately for claims over $1,000 and claims $1,000 or less. The terms “hospital care,” “medical services,” “nursing home care,” “facilities of the Department,” and “non-Department facilities” are defined in section 1701.