Sponsor
Jerry Moran
Senator · R-KS
Senator · R-KS
The bill increases veterans' access to care and training opportunities by enabling use of excess military medical capacity and interagency provider sharing, but does so at added taxpayer cost and with security, legal/administrative, disclosure, and sunset-related implementation risks.
Enrolled veterans will gain increased access to care by being allowed to use excess-capacity military medical facilities in their area, reducing wait times and expanding where they can get treatment.
VA and DoD providers (and therefore veterans) will be able to jointly treat patients through cross‑credentialing, reducing administrative delays and expanding provider options.
Hospitals and medical training programs will see higher case volume and more complex cases from shared use of military facilities, benefiting medical education and future care quality.
Taxpayers will face additional costs because implementing IT integration, cross‑credentialing, monitoring, and reporting requires funding for systems and administration.
DoD installations, federal employees, and military personnel may face increased security and administrative burdens from expedited civilian access to military facilities, requiring new vetting and safeguards.
Healthcare workers and hospitals could face complicated liability, billing, and workload attribution issues when care is shared across DoD and VA systems, increasing administrative friction and legal risk.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD and VA to create joint action plans at covered military medical facilities to expand sharing, cross-credentialing, IT integration, and veteran access to care.
Official title: Improve the availability of care for veterans from facilities and providers of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 8, 2025 by Jerry Moran · Last progress December 8, 2025
Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to develop and implement joint action plans at covered military medical treatment facilities to expand sharing of resources and increase care access for enrolled veterans. The plans must improve cross-credentialing, facility access, coordination, data collection, IT integration, oversight of adverse events, and include local approvals, designated coordinators, a public list of sharing agreements, and a confidential anti-retaliation complaint system. The measure uses existing statutory authority to strengthen DoD–VA facility sharing, boost case volume for medical education programs, and increase utilization of DoD facilities with excess capacity — with required monitoring, performance goals, and specified implementation elements at each covered facility.