VA OIG releases TBI scandal Report

[Berta]

The Office of the VA Inspector General has finally released to the public- it’s February  2018 report on the TBI scandals of three years ago.

https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-15-01580-108.pdf

As Ben Krause mentions  at his web site, more changes are coming to the way VA rates disabilities.

“According to the VA press release, the agency will start with conditions of the eye and other sense organs. The agency says its changes are to “better align with modern medicine,” but I think we all see the writing on the wall.”

(he is speaking of a VA press release I believe I posted here a few days ago) but adds his take on this VA OIG report:

“The agency does not need new regulations as much as it needs to at least start following the regulations and policies it already has in place. Case in point is the recent traumatic brain injury (TBI) scandal where we caught VA using unqualified doctors to examine veterans with residuals of TBI. The policy inside VA and common practice in the field of neurology indicates a nurse practitioner lacks the training necessary to diagnose TBI.”

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/05/20/va-says-disability-compensation-changes-due-to-modern-medicine/

[Richard1954]

On 5/20/2018 at 7:21 AM, Berta said:

The Office of the VA Inspector General has finally released to the public- it’s February  2018 report on the TBI scandals of three years ago.

https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-15-01580-108.pdf

 

The problem also ----- these reports are self serving, and when I had my TBI exam the rating hinged on my answers to the examiners questions nothing more!   How do you appeal such an exam ?  especially sine you cannot remember the questions asked.