GAO Report Exposes Veterans Affairs Bad Doctor Reporting
. . .GAO Report: Veterans Affairs Fails To Report 90% Of Bad Doctors And Other Healthcare Workers
by Benjamin Krause: A new GAO report exposes that Veterans Affairs shamefully put veterans lives at risk by failing its duty to report bad doctors and other clinicians.
The GAO report confirms a USA Today report exposing VA has concealed and avoided investigations and mandated reporting of bad health care workers for many years. Maybe if VA had followed its own mandatory reporting guidelines, veterans like Charles Ingram, the veteran who burned himself alive, would still be with us.
The GAO report in question evaluated only 5 locations and found VA failed to report 8 of 9 clinicians. Unfortunately, the report fails to tell readers which facilities were evaluated. Obviously, one would expect one star rated facilities like Phoenix VA to have more failures than five star rated facilities like Minneapolis VA.
Providers at the unnamed facilities were not reported because “officials were generally not familiar with or misinterpreted” the policies.
“At one facility, we found that officials failed to report six providers to the (national database) because the officials were unaware that they had been delegated responsibility for…reporting,” the GAO said.
GAO also found VA failed to maintain adequate documentation on almost half the investigations.
Per USA Today, “a total of 148 providers required clinical reviews after concerns were raised about their care between October 2013 and March 2017. But in nearly half those cases, the hospitals could not provide documentation that the reviews occurred.”
“We found that all five (hospitals) lacked at least some documentation of the reviews they told us they conducted, and in some cases, the required reviews were not conducted at all,” GAO concluded.
USA Today and other mainstream media left out the specific procedures GOA said VA was supposed to follow. It included it straight from the GAO report italicized below for your review. Veterans should be able to track this to help guide them when reporting wrongdoing by a clinician.
Download: GAO Report Bad Doctors for those proceedures and their findings!
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Benjamin Krause is a lawyer, investigative reporter and award-winning veterans advocate. He is author of the Voc Rehab Survival Guide for Veterans and chief editor of DisabledVeterans.org.
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The GAO report confirms a USA Today report exposing VA has concealed and avoided investigations and mandated reporting of bad health care workers for many years. Maybe if VA had followed its own mandatory reporting guidelines, veterans like Charles Ingram, the veteran who burned himself alive, would still be with us.
The GAO report in question evaluated only 5 locations and found VA failed to report 8 of 9 clinicians. Unfortunately, the report fails to tell readers which facilities were evaluated. Obviously, one would expect one star rated facilities like Phoenix VA to have more failures than five star rated facilities like Minneapolis VA.
Providers at the unnamed facilities were not reported because “officials were generally not familiar with or misinterpreted” the policies.
“At one facility, we found that officials failed to report six providers to the (national database) because the officials were unaware that they had been delegated responsibility for…reporting,” the GAO said.
GAO also found VA failed to maintain adequate documentation on almost half the investigations.
Per USA Today, “a total of 148 providers required clinical reviews after concerns were raised about their care between October 2013 and March 2017. But in nearly half those cases, the hospitals could not provide documentation that the reviews occurred.”
“We found that all five (hospitals) lacked at least some documentation of the reviews they told us they conducted, and in some cases, the required reviews were not conducted at all,” GAO concluded.
USA Today and other mainstream media left out the specific procedures GOA said VA was supposed to follow. It included it straight from the GAO report italicized below for your review. Veterans should be able to track this to help guide them when reporting wrongdoing by a clinician.
Download: GAO Report Bad Doctors for those proceedures and their findings!
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Benjamin Krause is a lawyer, investigative reporter and award-winning veterans advocate. He is author of the Voc Rehab Survival Guide for Veterans and chief editor of DisabledVeterans.org.
Tags: Benjamin Krause, DisabledVeterans.org, GAO Report, Exposes Veterans Affairs, Bad Doctor Reporting To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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