IG: VA Misdirected Health-Care Funds

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) wrongly shifted more than $96 million in medical-support funds to the VA’s Health Care Claims Processing System, the department’s inspector general has determined. The appropriations “are only authorized for administering medical, construction, supply and research activities,” the IG stated in its March 2 report of the improper activity. The report recommended that the VA establish a better oversight process, and reallocate the misappropriated money for use in health care-related activities for which they were intended.