Should another major health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic occur, the Veterans Affairs Department may not have a way to calculate the additional costs needed to address it, a Government Accountability Office report said Thursday.
The report — which examined how the VA allocated the $36.7 billion in supplemental funding received during the pandemic — found that the department bolstered a myriad of health care delivery functions, as well as information technology capabilities to expand telehealth services, during the health crisis and have factored the costs continuing those some services into its fiscal 2024 budget…
Source: VA lacks the emergency budget modeling to prepare for health crises like COVID, GAO says. By Carten Cordell, February 9. 2024. Government Executive.
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