Veteran’s Choice Accountability Act

This bill focuses on improving health care for veterans by checking how well the VA’s care programs are working. It tells the VA to review all programs that provide hospital, medical, and nursing home care, identify the most-used specialized services, and make sure those services are kept strong as “centers of excellence”. It also requires the VA to report on how well it carried out an earlier law aimed at improving budgeting and the Veterans Choice program. A brief summary confirms these points: evaluate key VA care programs and submit an evaluation of how the VA implemented the VA Budget and Choice Improvement Act.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Veterans using VA hospital, medical, or nursing home care, and VA health programs and facilities.
• What changes: VA must review its care programs, keep the most-used specialized services as centers of excellence, and deliver a report on how it implemented a prior VA improvement law .
• When: The VA’s implementation report is due within two years after the law takes effect.