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Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) | Department of Veterans Affairs Open Data Portal.
VA Vera. VA Disability Claims. Anybody ever schedule an appointment with VA Vera? https://vets.force.com/VAVERA/s/ are they officially under the VA and why is there site so well hidden. 9. 31 Share.
VERA is utilized by 129 medical care facilities, and reporting is available to approximately 400,000 employees. This serves approximately 9,000,000-10,000,000 Veterans per year. VERA processes 140,000 encounters per year and requires the retention of up to 10 years’ worth of data.
- What Is Vera?
- Dollars Follow Veterans
- The Goals of The Vera Study Were Specified by Congressional Mandate
- What Did VA Managers Think About Vera?
- What Really Affects Patient Costs?
- What Did The VA Do with Rand’S Advice?
- Notes
The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs is “To serve America’s veterans … and be their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care.” Any veteran who was honorably discharged from active military service is eligible for VA benefits. Of some 26 million veterans, nearly 7 million were enrolled in the VA health care system a...
The VERA system was developed with several goals in mind: that resources be allocated equitably to the regional networks; that spending be focused on the highest priority veterans — that is, those whose disabilities/conditions were service connected and those with special health care needs (such as blind vets); and that the allocation system be sim...
In 2000, Congress passed legislation requiring the VA to examine how the allocations made under VERA affected, or accounted for, a variety of concerns, which were spelled out in the legislation. In particular, Congress was interested in whether the regional allocations considered regional differences in costs associated with: 1. maintaining older, ...
To provide Congress with answers in the specified six-month time frame, the researchers based their analysis on site visits to VA facilities around the nation, interviews with VA health care administrators, and a review of prior studies and legislation relevant to the issues. Overall, VERA seemed to be doing a fairer job of allocating funds than pr...
Intrigued with the impressions gathered from the VA managers, Congress and the VA asked if RAND would quantify how a wide variety of factors affects the cost of caring for patients and create an equation or a set of equations (known as a model) that would allow the VA to calculate the effect of any changes in veterans’ health policy on patient cost...
Responding to RAND’s findings, the VA decided to adopt a more precise adjustment for patients’ health status, one that employs ten illness categories (see the table). Should they have adopted an even more complex adjustment system? RAND’s findings suggested that the complexity of switching to such a system would more than offset any advantage that ...
In fiscal year 2002, the number of VISNs was reduced from 22 to 21 (VISNs 13 and 14 were combined to become VISN 23).
- Jeffrey Wasserman, Jeanne S. Ringel, Karen A. Ricci, Jesse D. Malkin, Barbara O. Wynn, Jack Zwanzige...
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- 2005
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The Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system was instituted by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)—the organization in the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) that is responsible for providing health care to veterans—in 1997. The system was designed to improve the allocation of
