Department of Veterans Affairs

Ensuring access to VA’s information and communications technologies is essential to accomplishing its mission. VA is required by law to make information from its websites and data systems accessible to people with disabilities. The OIG conducted this audit to address concerns from Congress and a...

The PACT Act authorizes VA to deliver veterans’ health care and benefits associated with exposure to environmental hazards during military service. VA may use the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (TEF) to ensure proper claims processing by the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and the...

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to assess the quality of care provided during a patient’s hospitalization, which ended with the patient’s death at the Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center (facility) in Memphis, Tennessee. The OIG also evaluated...

The OIG reviewed the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA’s) assessment and management of inpatient alcohol withdrawal following several OIG inspections where adverse clinical outcomes associated with alcohol withdrawal, likely contributing to patient deaths, were identified. Determining the...

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the inpatient and outpatient care provided at the Miami VA Healthcare System, which includes the Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center and multiple outpatient...

VA’s Financial Management Business Transformation Service (FMBTS) is leading and managing the implementation of the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS), an enterprise-wide modernization effort to replace legacy systems that facilitate the department’s financial and...

In this legislatively mandated review, the OIG sought to determine whether VBA continues to use updated public disability benefits questionnaires and, because public questionnaires may pose a significant risk of fraud without adequate internal controls, to examine VBA’s oversight of their use...

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. This evaluation focused on five key operational areas:• Leadership and...

VA partners with private sector companies using energy savings performance contracts to implement energy conservation measures without paying direct capital costs up front. The companies finance the capital costs of implementing these energy upgrades and are compensated through the energy cost...