GAO Makes Recommendations to VHA to Improve Oversight
Healthcare Innovation December 11, 2024
Analysis finds that the Audit, Risk, and Compliance Committee has not reviewed relevant oversight findings, such as from medical investigations, and has not provided recommendations for system-wide improvements
It has been nearly a decade since the U.S. Government Accountability Office added the Veterans Health Administration to its High-Risk List of programs and operations that are vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement, or in need of transformation. The GAO’s recent analysis makes several recommendations for improvement and leaves VHA on the High-Risk List.
A GAO report noted that since its high-risk designation, VHA has undergone various organizational changes to the offices responsible for carrying out select oversight functions, with the goal of eliminating fragmentation, overlap, and duplication across oversight...