For a veteran to gain access to the community care program, further eligibility ... the community care network takes over, and the VA healthcare system stops. The CCN covers five regions.

WASHINGTON — The Veterans Community Care Program was established to help ... out the door every year to a community care network over which VA and this committee have devoted very little ...

The Veterans Affairs Department's newly expanded and consolidated private healthcare network for veterans ... Cashour did not confirm the new VA community care program will follow TriCare's ...

VA officials originally estimated that the new program would give an additional ... Optum Public Sector Solutions to manage the Community Care network in 36 states and the District of Columbia.

The new permanent program for buying private care will take effect in June 2019. The VA’s new and improved Community Care Network contracts were supposed to be in place by then. But the agency ...

The Veterans Community Care Program was created under the VA Mission ... to care for veterans through our community provider network. Since VA Mission Act implementation, more than 3 million ...

A visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., on April 2, 2015. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) Veterans Affairs leaders are phasing out the department’s ...

The Veteran's Administration Community Care program covers behavioral health by local, community providers when the VA's own network cannot be utilized. The program is also called Care in the ...

Dr. Joe Jacobs, staff radiologist at the G.V. Sonny Montgomery Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., demonstrates new medical software in May 2013. VA announced a new contractor for outside health ...

“Streamlining the VA community care program is a common-sense way we can ... clinicians registered with the agency’s health care network. But veterans must meet specific conditions to receive ...

In the hot seat was Lisa Simoneau, the director of the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System who oversees the Community Care program. U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds sat near her, listening to the complaints ...