1.1.6: VA and DOD Health Care Services

Assess actions and options for improving VA’s and DOD’s health care services

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Key Efforts: Evaluate proposals to restructure or „„consolidate VA’s health care system, including proposals on capital asset realignment and resource-sharing. Review implementation of VA resource „„allocation and revenue collection systems and budget formulation and execution practices. Assess implications of changes to VA „„and DOD health benefits and health care delivery systems, including whether integrating aspects of their operations could increase their overall efficiency and effectiveness. Assess vulnerability of VA’s system to „„fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Examine access to and quality and cost „„of care for VA and DOD beneficiaries, including DOD’s efforts to contain and share the costs of expanded benefits for active duty, reserve, and retired beneficiaries, and VA’s and DOD’s efforts to provide care and seamless transitions for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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