HealthIT Answers March 19, 2025
By Kent Dicks, CEO and Founder, Life365
Decade after decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has sought innovative ways to expand access to care for veterans. These efforts, unfortunately, often have gone unreported in the media.
As far back as 2003, for example, the VA began offering virtual care and remote health monitoring to an estimated 2.4 million veterans in their homes and other locations. The federal agency also created the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP) in 2018 to enable our former service members—particularly the many veterans living in rural areas—to obtain care from non-VA healthcare facilities.
That program has grown so rapidly, however, that it now accounts for 40% of the VA’s total contract obligations,...
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