Healthcare Inspection: Inappropriate Research and Development Data Entries Affecting Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) Funding, VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

摘要

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Healthcare Inspections, initiated a national review to determine whether VA Research and Development (R&D) expenses were being over-reported by VA medical centers (VAMCs) to gain increased reimbursement funding. Our review was initiated after an Administrative Investigation Board (AIB) found inappropriate reporting of R&D projects that increased the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) funding for reimbursable Research and Development (R&D) expenses at the VA Maryland Health Care System (VAMHCS) by $15,500,000.