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VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Ensure Provider Qualifications and Competence

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Oct. 16, 2019
Release Date Oct. 16, 2019
Report No. GAO-20-152T
Summary:

VA requires that its medical centers review doctors’ qualifications and practice history before deciding whether to hire or retain them. However, we’ve found that some VA medical centers inadvertently overlooked information that would disqualify a doctor from being hired—such as having a revoked license.

If medical centers are concerned about or have disciplined a doctor, they are required to report to state licensing boards or a national database as appropriate. But some medical centers didn’t make these reports.

This testimony is based on reports with 11 recommendations, including that VA better oversee how its medical centers review doctors.

VA Medical Center building

VA Medical Center building

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