Veterans Community Care Program: immediate actions needed to ensure health providers associated with poor quality care are excluded : report to Congressional committees

Veterans Community Care Program: immediate actions needed to ensure health providers associated with poor quality care are excluded : report to Congressional committees

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Contributor(s):
United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
United States. Congress, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, February 2021
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Community Health Services -- standards
Contract Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
Credentialing -- legislation & jurisprudence
Government Regulation
Health Personnel -- standards
Licensure -- legislation & jurisprudence
Quality of Health Care -- standards
United States
United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Why GAO did this study. The VA MISSION Act of 2018 established a new community care program, the VCCP, aimed at providing care to veterans when it could not reasonably be delivered by providers at VA medical facilities. The act also requires VA to exclude from participation in the VCCP providers who lost a license for violating medical license requirements in any state or who VA removed from employment for quality of care concerns or otherwise suspended from VA employment. The VA MISSION Act included provisions for GAO to report on the implementation of restrictions on certain health care providers’ participation in the VCCP. This report examines, among other issues, VA and contractor processes to implement these eligibility restrictions on provider participation in the VCCP. GAO reviewed VA’s contracts and contractor policies related to VCCP provider credentialing, interviewed VA and contractor officials, and assessed the provider credentialing requirements and processes. In addition, GAO collected data on former VA providers and compared these data to the database of VCCP providers. What GAO recommends. GAO is making three recommendations to VA, including that VA require its contractors to have credentialing and monitoring policies that ensure compliance with VA MISSION Act license restrictions and that it assess the risk to veterans when former VA providers with quality concerns continue to provide VCCP care. VA generally agreed with GAO’s three recommendations.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (ii, 39 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
9918317780906676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918317780906676