Department of Veterans Affairs

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...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this inspection to evaluate concerns related to a Virtual Pharmacy Services (VPS) pharmacist’s discontinuation of an antidepressant medication for a patient of the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which resulted in the patient not having...

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report provides a focused evaluation of the quality of care delivered in the inpatient and outpatient settings of the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System and multiple outpatient clinics in Kansas and Missouri. The...

This report presents the findings of an audit that examined whether VA’s police information systems provided program leaders and the workforce with adequate information to manage operations and in turn support effective governance. It builds on a December 2018 Office of Inspector General (OIG)...

The OIG evaluated the merits of a May 2018 complaint alleging the former executive director of the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, a VA-affiliated nonprofit corporation, spent about $740,000 on a project that was not reviewed by its board of directors. The OIG also examined...