WASHINGTON — Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs who blew the whistle on the manipulation of scheduling data to falsely reflect shorter wait times are blasting investigations of ...

Employees at 40 VA medical facilities in 19 states and Puerto Rico regularly “zeroed out” veteran wait times, the analysis shows. In some cases, investigators found manipulation had been going ...

Veterans will no longer need a second VA physician to review and approve their eligibility to receive non-VA health care.

Two reports released this week – one by the VA’s inspector general and another by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs – indicate in some cases wait times were manipulated to ...

Veterans Affairs officials are overhauling their website detailing medical wait times at facilities across the country, but that won’t mean significant changes to private-sector care eligibility ...

“Veterans died while waiting for care at the VA hospital last year. But only two people were fired — were fired for lying about the wait times — two people.” — Former Florida governor ...

Congress last year passed legislation designed to simplify the process for veterans seeking medical help outside the VA ...

The VA was told in 2012 its outpatient medical-appointment wait times were "unreliable." Phoenix whistle-blowers went to federal investigators with complaints in fall 2013. U.S. Veterans Affairs ...

An Associated Press analysis of wait times at 940 VA hospitals and clinics from Sept. 1 to Feb. 28 found that the number of veterans waiting more than 30 or 60 days for non-emergency care has ...

VA recently concluded a series of “access sprints” to reduce wait times for certain types of visits including those related to mental health, which involved increasing appointment availability ...

Earlier this year, VA centers nationwide came under intense scrutiny by federal officials for falsifying health care records to reduce the appearance of long wait times. At the VA in Phoenix ...