Background Previous studies have found racial differences in the use of invasive
cardiovascular procedures, which may be due in part to the greater financial incentives to …

Objectives. We quantified older (65 years and older) Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
patients' use of the private sector to obtain 14 surgical procedures and assessed the …

For Veterans who cannot be seen in a timely fashion or must travel long distances to be
seen, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) offers funded care in the community. The …

Importance The Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care (CC) Program supplements VA care
with community-based medical services. However, access gains and value provided by CC …

Lengthy travel distances may explain why relatively few veterans in the United States use
VA hospitals for inpatient medical/surgical care. We used two approaches to distinguish the …

Objective. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of provider profiling on bypass
surgery access and outcomes in elderly patients in New York. Background. Since 1989 …

We sought to determine whether Veterans Health Administration (VA) enrollees use the VA
system or the private sector for solid-organ transplantation and whether VA system use is …

Objective. To compare patients treated for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a Veterans
Health Administration (VHA) facility to similar patients treated under Medicare. Data …

Since the 1980s, numerous studies have shown that African-Americans are less likely to
undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) than their white counterparts. 1 Even in …

Objectives. This study examines the association between the regional availability of cardiac
technology and outcomes of care for patients admitted to Department of Veterans Affairs …