{"id":52093,"date":"2022-01-18T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/01\/18\/va-approved-thousands-of-ineligible-doctors-now-lawmakers-want-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:18:07","slug":"va-approved-thousands-of-ineligible-doctors-now-lawmakers-want-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2022\/01\/18\/va-approved-thousands-of-ineligible-doctors-now-lawmakers-want-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"VA approved thousands of ineligible doctors \u2014 now lawmakers want changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers are demanding reforms in how Veterans Affairs officials screen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2021\/10\/13\/changes-to-vas-community-care-program-raise-concerns-about-vets-health-care-access\/\" target=\"_blank\">outside doctors<\/a> for patient medical care after a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-22-103850.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Government Accountability Office<\/a> review found the department\u2019s referral list contains about 1,600 providers that are ineligible to treat veterans, including 601 who are dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile [the list] represents a small percentage of the Veterans Community Care Program\u2019s roughly 1.2 million active providers, they represent potential threats to veteran health and safety and risks for financial fraud,\u201d a group of representatives wrote in a letter to VA health officials on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe urge VA to review all ineligible providers identified by GAO and, as appropriate, deactivate them in the Community Care Network so veterans are not referred to them for care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The request \u2014 signed by Reps. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.; Tracey Mann, R-Kansas; Julia Brownley, D-Calif.; and Jack Bergman, R-Mich. \u2014 comes amid increasing scrutiny of VA\u2019s Community Care program, which allows veterans to receive care from private-sector physicians but have the appointments paid for with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2022\/01\/08\/covid-surge-delayed-release-of-vas-recommendations-for-facility-closings-expansions\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17166612542547.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Covid surge delayed release of VA\u2019s recommendations for facility closings, expansions<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The report was due out on Jan. 31 but will be delayed by six weeks.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program has been a key part of VA health care for decades, but conservatives in recent years have pushed to expand it dramatically amid concerns of long wait times and specialist shortages at some VA medical centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But critics of that plan have said that department officials need to improve their oversight of Community Care providers first, to make sure they are meeting the same medical standards and expectations of VA physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest GAO review appears to bolster that argument, noting that VA officials had failed to exclude a small but significant number of ineligible providers from the Community Care program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with 601 deceased physicians, the list included 216 active providers who had a revoked medical license and 796 who have surrendered their medical licenses in response to an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One provider had a nursing license expire in 2016, was arrested for assault in 2018, and convicted of patient abuse in 2019. The individual was still added to the Community Care list later in 2019, a move that VA officials have now said was a clerical error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vulnerabilities we identified \u2026 indicate that veterans may potentially be at risk of receiving care from unqualified providers,\u201d the GAO report states.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/10\/13\/changes-to-vas-community-care-program-raise-concerns-about-vets-health-care-access\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/veteran-va-hospital-600.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" 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