Department of Veterans Affairs

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to assess allegations of inadequate preoperative evaluations and the management of postoperative care for a patient approved for bariatric surgery at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. The patient did not receive three...

VA and other government agencies spend billions of taxpayer dollars annually through VA’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracting program. The FSS program provides the government a simplified process for acquiring commercial supplies and services in varying quantities while obtaining volume...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) had not been given the authority to require drug manufacturers to make drugs available at discounted prices to VA if the same items had been dispensed to...

VA Management inappropriately used VA's Enhanced Use Lease authority to procure office space, parking, and domiciliary services at the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center. The space and services procured through the Enhanced Use Lease with Veterans Development, LLC significantly exceeded any in-kind...

VA spends millions of taxpayer dollars annually on healthcare resources procured without competition from affiliated institutions. This report is a summary of the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) 27 healthcare resource proposal reviews completed before VA awarded the contracts (preaward reviews)...

Following an investigation conducted in response to allegations made to the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) hotline, the Office of Special Reviews substantiated that an Office of General Counsel (OGC) attorney was using VA time and resources to work on matters related to his outside law...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) Administrative Investigations Division investigated alleged misconduct by two employees of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California. A complainant alleged that a supervisory health system specialist misused his/her public office for private...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigated allegations that the VA San Diego Healthcare System staff manipulated the time cards for seven fee-basis medical providers in order to pay these individuals on a salary or wage basis rather than a per-procedure basis. In addition, the allegations...

VA’s Office of Community Care (OCC) intended to use overtime to reduce a backlog of non-VA care claims. This backlog had been increasing since at least October 2016. The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) examined how the overtime was used, the effect on claims backlog reduction, and whether...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) identified potential Post-9/11 GI Bill monthly student housing allowance overpayments by analyzing nearly 10 years of participant data. The review focused on students who continued to receive housing payments more than 18 months after their latest tuition...