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OIG Tells Subcommittee VA’s Program Integrity Tool Pause Hobbled Fraud Detection; Lawmakers Back IT-Based Countermeasures
Summary
The VA Office of Inspector General described a pause in the Program Integrity Tool (PIT) that limited fraud detection and revenue collection; members and witnesses discussed H.R. 3483, the Fraud Act, to require an IT system to detect overpayments in community care claims.
The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee heard testimony from the VA Office of Inspector General that a pause in the department’s Program Integrity Tool (PIT) reduced the VA’s ability to detect fraud, waste and abuse in community care payments and hampered revenue collection.
"The pause was intended to allow VHA time to evaluate the tool's processes, data, and its underlying IT system to determine the causes of any data errors and identify improvement opportunities," Dr. Jennifer McDonald said, describing why VHA halted the tool in February 2023.
Dr. McDonald told lawmakers that while the PIT was offline, VHA’s ability to collect revenue from…
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