BRENDAN BELAIR

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and discretionary funding, including Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations; stewardship and spending integrity of VA funds through improved claims integrity and recovery; and program-integrity priorities within VA appropriations for FY2027.

Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare payment integrity, claims accuracy, and improper-payment reduction, including third-party insurance recovery and insurance discovery for non-service-connected care under 38 U.S.C. 1729, and Veterans Community Care Program payment integrity (duplicate-payment detection, authorization controls, and billing accuracy). Application of predictive analytics and payment-integrity tools within the Veterans Health Administration, including at the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) level, and VA revenue-cycle modernization. H.R. 9237 / S. 4744, the Take Care of America's Veterans Act (119th Congress).

Government-wide fraud, waste, abuse, and improper-payment reduction, including pre-payment controls and high-risk fraud detection across federal benefit programs; the Vice President's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud; and cross-agency healthcare payment integrity and data coordination between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to identify duplicate federal payments and overlapping coverage.

H.R. 9237 / S. 4744, the Take Care of America's Veterans Act (119th Congress), including provisions relating to Veterans Community Care Program payment auditing, VA-Medicare care coordination, and authorities of the VA Center for Innovation for Care and Payment. Department of Veterans Affairs payment integrity, claims accuracy, fraud prevention, and third-party insurance recovery under 38 U.S.C. 1729. Pilot authorities within Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) for the evaluation of commercial predictive analytics and payment integrity tools applied to VA healthcare operations and the Veterans Community Care Program.