Report on improvements to clinical appeals process

Title VI: Veterans’ Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers · Subtitle F: Other Health Care Matters

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The Department of Veterans Affairs must work with veterans, caregivers, employees, and other groups to create a report with suggestions to make the clinical appeals process faster, clearer, fairer, and more consistent. This report is due within two years and will be sent to the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees. The consultation for this report does not have to follow certain federal advisory committee rules.

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(a) In general

Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with veterans service organizations, veterans, caregivers of veterans, employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other stakeholders as determined by the Secretary, shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report containing recommendations for legislative or administrative action to improve the clinical appeals process of the Department with respect to timeliness, transparency, objectivity, consistency, and fairness.

(b) Inapplicability of requirements relating to Federal advisory committees

Chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to the consultation required by subsection (a).

(c) Veterans service organization defined

In this section, the term veterans service organization means any organization recognized by the Secretary under section 5902 of title 38, United States Code.