VA Community Care program under fire as vets wait for appointments, providers wait for payments The program will cost taxpayers $42 billion this fiscal year, and lawmakers are seeking more oversight.

For veterans transitioning from military to civilian life, the lack of support for the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has been a point of contention for years, with delays in care and ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is prepared to enact part of the VA Mission Act, which will expand veterans' access to care providers within the VA community, Federal News Network reports.

News Veterans, lawmakers seek fixes to VA's Veterans Community Care Program Critics say a lack of consistent policies and protocols plague the program, and can cause long wait times for appointments.

Veterans seeking care in the Department of Veterans Affairs ' community care program in 30 specialties will not have to get reauthorization from the VA for a year under a new policy announced by ...

But is community care comparable to VA care? Not by a long shot. If VCCP care was the same as VA care, then: Private care appointment wait times would be publicly transparent. They aren't. Every ...

The VA Community Care Program has rightfully unleashed a public-private partnership between VA and local health care providers to expand veterans’ access to care, whether it’s because VA can ...

Previously, some specialty referrals in the VA community care program were subject to review every 90 to 180 days, a process that often risked delays or disruptions in care.

Veterans can get emergency medical exams with a Department of Veterans Affairs nurse under a new program that aims to keep patients out of non-VA emergency rooms and urgent care centers for ...

The Veterans Community Care Program promised to give vets speedier access to high0quality care. Instead, its care is of lower quality, takes longer and its cost is soaring.

Congress last year passed legislation designed to simplify the process for veterans seeking medical help outside the VA health care system.