“Errors afflicted more than one in ten payments made by the VA to its private partners under the Choice program from November 2014 to September 2016, an audit from the department’s inspector general concluded.”
The source points to a VA OIG Office of Audits and Evaluations report titled: Audit of the Timeliness and Accuracy of Choice Payments Processed Through the Free Basis Claims System and covers the payment process from November 1, 2014 through September 30, 2016.
Source: Morning eHealth – By Darius Tahir and Mohana Ravindranath, December 22, 2017. Politico. Read the full newsletter here.