WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks, ...

Army veteran John Polk has been a volunteer driver for 10 years with Disabled American Veterans, giving veterans in Wisconsin rides to doctor appointments at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center and other ...

WASHINGTON — James McCormick, an Iraq War veteran, waited 11 months to see an eye doctor at the Huntington VA Medical Center in West Virginia after booking an appointment for his annual checkup in ...

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to streamline its scheduling processes for medical appointments amid reports that veterans are falling through the cracks ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay private sector doctors for care outside the government network if a veteran waits longer than 20 days for a primary ...

WASHINGTON — Army veteran Andy Butzler said he prefers to attend medical appointments at the Department of Veterans Affairs via online conference calls rather than drive an hour from his home in ...

The Veterans Affairs Department is shopping to replace an electronic appointments scheduling system that was manipulated by staff at dozens of VA hospitals to conceal the fact facilities were not ...

As a result of the software problem, the veteran’s missed appointment “was not routed to a queue to prompt rescheduling efforts.” When a patient does not report for their appointment, relevant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Veterans Affairs has changed its process for veterans to get medical care from non-VA providers, removing a ...