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inewsource | VA doctors are being over-ruled on veterans' treatment plans. Here's why.
Following the VA's new initiative, department hospitals have also set up select teams of health care personnel who can review medical records and use algorithms to decide if patients qualify for care outside the VA before interacting with those patients.
And for veterans ultimately approved for treatments elsewhere, the VA can require checkups at its hospitals anyway — that includes veterans facing severe disabilities, burdensome drives or long wait times for VA appointments.
"It basically defeats the whole purpose of the Mission Act," said Darin Selnick, senior advisor to Concerned Veterans for America, an organization pushing for veterans to have more access to private health care.
"We need to be veteran centric," he added. "It's about what the patient needs, not what the VA needs." |
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