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The bill would improve and expand veterans' access to care and interagency coordination by using DoD medical capacity and cross‑credentialing, at the cost of added taxpayer spending, DoD security/administrative burdens, potential operational and liability complexities, and a sunset that could make gains temporary.
Enrolled veterans near military facilities will gain expanded access to care because VA can use excess‑capacity DoD medical facilities to treat them.
VA and DoD providers will be able to cross‑credential and jointly treat patients, reducing administrative delays and increasing provider options for veterans.
Hospitals, medical training programs, and health systems will get higher case volumes and more complex cases from shared facility use, improving clinical training and future care quality.
Taxpayers could face increased spending because implementing IT integration, cross‑credentialing, monitoring, and other administrative changes will incur additional costs.
DoD installations and military personnel may face added security or administrative burdens from expedited civilian access to facilities, requiring new vetting and site management processes.
Healthcare workers and hospital systems could face complicated liability, billing, and workload attribution issues when care and credentials are shared between DoD and VA providers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DoD and VA to develop facility-level action plans to expand VA–DoD medical resource sharing, cross-credentialing, IT integration, and access for enrolled veterans.
Introduced December 8, 2025 by Jerry Moran · Last progress December 8, 2025
Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to develop and implement facility-level action plans at covered military medical treatment facilities to expand VA–DoD medical resource sharing. Plans must improve coordination and communication, increase use of excess capacity, enable cross-credentialing and expedited access, boost clinical case volume for training programs, and expand access to care for enrolled veterans, with designated coordinators, performance monitoring, and a confidential complaint mechanism.