Ig Indictment- Falsified Records

[Berta]

In Part:
"AUGUSTA, GA: A 50-count indictment, unsealed today in federal court, has charged Cathedral Henderson, 50, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee and the former Chief of Fee Basis over non-VA Care at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, with crimes related to his alleged falsification of the medical records of numerous VA patients. The indictment alleges that Henderson terminated unresolved consults – medical appointments that had not been scheduled or completed – by falsely stating in VA patients’ medical records that “services have been completed or patient refused services.”

http://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/va-employee-charged-falsifying-medical-records-numerous-veterans

[Notorious Kelly]

Veterans suffer and die because of people like her- may she be the first snowball in an avalanche.

[Fat]

Sad...........

She needs to fired immediately and disallowed for any federal pension.

[Buck52]

I just wonder what good did she get out of doing this?

just plain ridiculous!

what in the hell is going on in todays world with all the corruption, more

crazy shootings, ISIS pulling there crap and Russia and china just setting back getting ready to take over America at any given moment.

Its time America woke up!

Edited July 24, 2015 by Buck52

[Chuck75]

This particuliarly irritates me!

"patient refused services." Etc.

Past years practices involved dropping "consults" when they aged out, fulfilled or not.

VA Current efforts

Calling veterans concerning more recent unfulfilled requests for service ("consults"),

months after the initial request for service from the veteran or the veteran's pcp.

In my experience, going back over a decade, if I really need timely medically related

service, it's often been necessary to obtain it via outside VA services.

It also has been necessary to have a treating physicians informal advice concerning delay in order to decide to try to get the VA to

provide or fund outside services.

The last call had to do with getting a vision related consult.

There was quite a delay between the initial request, so, I ended up

having to make an appointment on my own to see an optometrist

that I had used in past years. A few days before the appointment date,

(naturally), the VA calls to offer an outside appointment. (The VA WILL

eventually tell the veteran where and who will fulfill the appointment.)

No "choice" is given the veteran. Since the current VA scheme is to use

the choice program vendors, rather than fee paid vendors, (evidently that's lower cost, etc.)

the veteran must then go through the hurdles to see if the providers on the choice list are acceptable.

This is a far cry from the fee paid scheme, where the veteran can ask the VA to pay for services to be rendered

by a specific provider, assuming that the provider and the VA agree on the fees, which generally follow Medicare fee allowances.

Thursdays hearing exposed a long standing serious problem that the VA has had.

MANAGEMENT

The heart of the problem is quite basic in nature. You have services that must, by law, be provided to veterans.

Then, there is a very rigid and somewhat detailed budget passed by Congress.

The dichotomy is that the budget does not allow use of over-funded line item money to

be used for under-funded ones.

A comparison might be what happened decades ago within DOD-

Seems that USAF funding shortfalls drastically impacted operations.

50% of certain "front line" aircraft types were non mission capable. Pilots

had training flight time cut to the point that only basic flight skills could be marginally maintained.

(Forget about combat related skills, equipment capability, etc.)

Yet, there was plenty of money for other areas.

End of rant for day!

[rootbeer22]

Folks:

If nothing else, this sends a very strong message...everyone, to include any supervisors should be held accountable as well...Based upon the news reports it seemed widespread...so what about the others,,,,must have been a very clear case,,,,,