Three Plead Guilty to Defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs
Guilty Pleas Entered by Former New Orleans VAMC Employees for Scheme Billing Veterans’ Health Care to Phony Companies...Read this press release
Congressional Testimony - 2/13/2013
Statement of Office of Inspector General Department of Veterans Affairs To The Committee On Veterans’ Affairs United States House Of Representatives Hearing On Honoring The Commitment: Overcoming Barriers To Quality Mental Health Care For Veterans Februar More
Pfizer Agrees to Pay $55 Million for Illegally Promoting Protonix for Off-Label Use
$55M Settlement Resolves Government's Investigation of Pfizer for Marketing Protonix for Use Not Approved by FDA...Read this press release
Audit of NCA's Internal Gravesite Review of Headstone and Marker Placement
US House Committee-Veterans Affairs requested OIG conduct this audit to determine if NCA adequately addressed issues found during its Phase One review of headstones and markers at VA national cemeteries. We found NCA did not have an independent review procedure to identify misplaced headstones and unmarked gravesites, did not...More
Former Gray Bear Construction Company Owner Sentenced for Lying to Obtain Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Program (SDVOSB) Contracts
Oregon Construction Owner Fined $200K, Gets 5 Years Probation for Defrauding Veteran Set-Aside Contract Program ...Read this press release
Review of VBA’s Transition to a Paperless Claims Processing Environment
In May 2012, the House Appropriations Committee directed the VA OIG to evaluate the VBMS to determine whether VA has performed sufficient systems testing. Our review included assessing whether VBA is positioned to meet its goal of eliminating the claims backlog and increasing the accuracy rate of processing claims to...More
Congressional Testimony - 2/5/2013
Statement of Linda A. Halliday Assistant Inspector General for Audits and Evaluations Office of Inspector General Department of Veterans Affairs Before The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs Committee on Veterans’ Affairs United St More
Audit of VHA's Beneficiary Travel Program
We found VHA lacks assurances that program costs are accurate and paid only to eligible veterans; that its liabilities, expenditures, and full costs of BTP are accurately recorded, monitored, and reported. OIG evaluated VHA’s management and oversight of VA’s Beneficiary Travel Program (BTP), which has experienced dramatic growth in costs,...More
Dayton Man Charged with Viewing Child Pornography While a Patient at VA Medical Center
OIG/VA Police Investigation Leads to Indictment of Dayton VA Medical Center Patient on Child Pornography Charges ...Read this press release