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This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to review some of its health care programs to make sure the most heavily used specialized services stay strong and continue to serve veterans well. It also requires the VA to send Congress a report on how it has carried out an earlier law meant to improve the VA health care system and the use of outside care options.
- The VA must examine the programs it uses to provide hospital care, medical services, nursing home care, and fee-basis care.
- This review is meant to identify the specialized care programs that are used the most and help keep them operating as centers of excellence.
- Within two years after the bill becomes law, the VA must submit an evaluation to Congress on how it has implemented the VA Budget and Choice Improvement Act.
Official Summaries
Veteran's Choice Accountability Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to evaluate VA programs that furnish hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to ensure that the most intensively used specialized care programs are maintained as centers of excellence. The bill also requires the VA to submit an evaluation of the VA's implementation of the VA Budget and Choice Improvement Act.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 554 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 554
To improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 16, 2025
Mr. Wittman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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A BILL
To improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veteran's Choice Accountability
Act''.
SEC. 2. EVALUATION OF FEE-BASIS CARE PROVIDED BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall evaluate all programs of
the Department of Veterans Affairs under which the Secretary furnishes
hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to determine the
most intensively used specialized care programs of the Department and
to ensure such programs are maintained as centers of excellence.
SEC. 3. EVALUATION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF VA BUDGET AND CHOICE
IMPROVEMENT ACT.
Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress an
evaluation of the implementation by the Secretary of the VA Budget and
Choice Improvement Act (title IV of Public Law 114-41).
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