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VA Overview

VA Overview. VA-DoD Sharing …a Collaborative Partnership. FY 2007 VA Budget. Requests $34.3B for health care, an increase of $3.5B (11.3%) over FY 2006, to serve 5.3M beneficiaries

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VA Overview

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  1. VA Overview

  2. VA-DoD Sharing…a Collaborative Partnership

  3. FY 2007 VA Budget • Requests $34.3B for health care, an increase of $3.5B (11.3%) over FY 2006, to serve 5.3M beneficiaries • Continues the President's commitment for VA to work closely with DoD to ensure that service members returning from OIF and OEF and their families receive timely, high-quality services and benefits • Proposes to increase co-pays for pharmaceu-ticals and to initiate a $250 enrollment fee for higher income non-service connected veterans

  4. Key VA/DoD Issues • Health Executive Council (HEC) Initiatives • Demonstration Projects • Joint Incentive Fund Projects • Seamless Transition • TRICARE Issues • Becoming TRICARE Network Providers • Obtaining Authorizations • Impact of Proposed Increases in Cost Shares • GAO Report • Performance Measures • Market Survey

  5. HEC Initiatives • Demonstration Projects: • One project being terminated – credentialing at San Antonio • Developing detailed lessons learned documents • LDSI and BHIE projects (San Antonio, El Paso and Madigan) will significantly enhance the ability of each system to review medical record information located in the other Department • Will be looking to export successes to other sites • Joint Incentive Fund Projects – to be discussed in afternoon session

  6. Seamless Transition • Current efforts focus on severely injured • VA social workers and benefits counselors assigned to high volume MTFs: • Walter Reed Army Medical Center (AMC) (DC) • Bethesda National Naval Hospital (Maryland) • Brooke AMC (San Antonio, TX) • Naval Hospital Great Lakes (Illinois) • Eisenhower AMC (Georgia) • Madigan AMC (Washington) • Camp Pendleton (California) • Ft. Carson (Colorado)

  7. Seamless Transition(continued) • Facilitate transfers from a MTF to VAMC • Polytrauma Centers • Other specialty centers (SCI, TBI, Blind Rehab) • Initiate benefits claims process (monthly compensation checks) • Offer other types of services: • Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program • Readjustment counseling services, including grief counseling for family members

  8. TRICARE Issues • VA is seeking to obtain authorized preferred provider status • Authorizations • Need to work with DoD to facilitate process of obtaining authorizations • Conflicting policies between the Departments • Impact of proposed increases in DoD cost shares for TRICARE • Shift of workload to VA under review • Coordination of Federal Benefits

  9. GAO Report: VA and DoD Health Care: Opportunities to Maximize Resource Sharing Remain • Recommendations: • Develop an evaluation plan to document and record the advantages and disadvantages of each DSS project to assist in replicating successful projects system-wide • Develop performance measures that would be useful for determining the progress of their resource sharing goals • Acknowledges for the first time that sharing has shifted from using excess capacity to partnering and gaining efficiencies by leveraging resources or buying power jointly

  10. VHA Central Office contacts: (202) 273-5514 (202) 273-8228 (202) 273-8411 VA liaisons in place for three DoD regions: North (703) 588-1882 South (210) 292-3232 West (619) 236-5309 VA Contacts

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