Department of Veterans Affairs

The VA Office of Inspector General’s information security inspection program assesses whether VA facilities are meeting federal security requirements related to three control areas the OIG determined to be at highest risk: configuration management controls, security management controls, and access...

The Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General conducted an administrative investigation into alleged ethics violations by Tracy Skala, former deputy director of the Orlando VA Medical Center. Ms. Skala’s son, who had a different last name, was a former VA employee who subsequently worked for a...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to assess an allegation that a physician (subject physician), who was not privileged at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (facility) in Shreveport, Louisiana, provided care to intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The OIG...

After previous failed attempts, VA is modernizing its finance and acquisition systems by implementing the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS). The system is being deployed by the Financial Management Business Transformation Service (FMBTS) in waves across VA. The six waves...

The OIG received a hotline allegation from a VA medical center employee regarding the improper sharing of sensitive information on VA’s internal network. The complainant reported that an employee could search for fellow employees on the internal network and find documents and emails that contained...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to evaluate allegations related to a patient’s care and the lung cancer screening (LCS) program at the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System (system) in Topeka and Leavenworth. The OIG substantiated that a patient experienced a...

Veterans are eligible to receive community care under certain circumstances, such as when their local VA medical facility does not provide the requested service or when a provider determines community care is in their best medical interest. In October 2020, the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA)...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this review to determine whether claims processors are properly assigning effective dates when considering PACT Act–related claims. After reviewing a statistical sample of 100 PACT Act–related claims completed from August 10, 2022, through August 9...

The expansion of benefits under the PACT Act of 2022 necessitated VBA increasing capacity to process the influx of claims. By September 2023, VBA had sought to hire 2,520 claims processors—veterans service representatives and rating veterans service representatives—and reported exceeding its goal by...

VBA’s Fiduciary Program protects vulnerable individuals unable to manage their own VA benefits due to injury, disease, infirmities, or age. The program appoints and oversees fiduciaries to manage those payments. Each beneficiary must have a record in the Veterans Benefits Management System–Fiduciary...