VA Data Transparency and Trust Act

This bill would make the Department of Veterans Affairs share clearer, more detailed information about veterans’ health care and benefits. For five years, the VA must send a yearly report with specifics on how many veterans got care, what kinds of care they received, and how that care is managed .

Health care reports would cover common conditions (like traumatic brain injury, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer), use of VA vs. non‑VA care, prescriptions, hospital stays, copays, basic quality measures (infections and patient satisfaction), staffing, and the state of VA clinics and hospitals . The benefits report would add data on who receives each type of benefit, disability ratings and changes, claim and supplemental claim wait times, staffing levels, and average payments; the first report also looks back five years . The bill also creates secure systems to share anonymized VA data with approved researchers, while protecting privacy .

• Who is affected: veterans who use VA health care or benefits, and approved researchers who meet VA security rules .
• What changes: more detailed annual reports on care (conditions, costs, quality, staffing, facilities) and benefits (who gets what, ratings, processing times, payments), plus anonymized data access for research .
• When: every year for five years after the bill becomes law; the first benefits report includes the prior five years .