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The bill improves veterans' access and care coordination by leveraging underused DoD resources and better VA–DoD data sharing, but it brings implementation complexity, added costs and security burdens, and short-term uncertainty due to a temporary sunset.
Enrolled veterans in areas with underused DoD medical facilities gain increased access to timely care because DoD capacity can be used to serve them.
Veterans and health systems will experience fewer duplicate tests and better coordinated care because VA and DoD can more easily share medical records and billing information.
Healthcare workers and patients with complex or chronic conditions benefit from more cross-credentialed clinicians and expanded graduate medical education, increasing clinician availability and shared clinical experience across both systems.
Implementation will require complex coordination across agencies, installations, and local commanders, likely slowing rollout and causing uneven availability of shared services across locations.
Enrolled veterans may face short-term delays or restricted care if VA suspends referrals to a provider during an investigation, reducing immediate access options.
Taxpayers and health systems could incur increased costs for IT integration, administrative coordination, and new billing processes needed to enable DoD–VA sharing.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD and VA to implement local action plans to share medical resources, integrate systems, cross‑credential clinicians, and expand veteran access and GME where DoD facilities have excess capacity.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Derek Schmidt · Last progress December 10, 2025
Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to create and carry out action plans at identified military and VA medical facilities so the two departments can share resources, improve communication, and increase veteran access to care where military facilities have unused capacity. Plans must cover clinician cross‑credentialing, expedited access for VA staff and enrolled veterans to DoD sites, a facility coordinator, performance goals and data tracking, and integrated IT and administrative systems for records, orders, billing, and workload attribution.