Virginia lawmakers are encouraging a senate committee to reapprove authorization of 18 Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facility ...

The South Texas Veterans Health Care System is opening the Victoria outpatient clinic on Thursday. It will be located on the Northwest side of Victoria, and the 22,691 square foot facility serves more ...

The VA and private care options are complements, not substitutes. But the political debate is framing them as an either-or ...

The move was mandated by Congress last fall as a way to simplify VA's community care procedures, which allow veterans to use taxpayer dollars to receive private medical care. About 40% of all ...

A federal watchdog is urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to bring greater focus to improving patient safety, modernizing its medical records and ensuring timely access to community care for ...

"However, we were informed that this meeting would not occur, as the VA's insurance company, Optum, ... administers the VA Community Care Network in Region 3, which includes Arkansas.

As a long-practicing local physician and leader at Optum Medical Care in New York, I want to address questions raised by Rep. Pat Ryan and express my commitment to providing high quality medical ...

Optum Medical Care in New York acknowledges issues raised in a report by Rep. Pat Ryan and is working on improvements. Focus areas include provider recruitment and access, faster call center ...

From 2022 to 2023, about 40% of all VA healthcare was community care. Veterans are satisfied with the care they receive. Community-based providers have bridged the gap in healthcare like we have ...

And then I was inevitably denied that MRI for Care in the Community, because I didn't meet some standard,” he said. He went through a private provider and traveled to Denver for the MRI in January.