Veterans Affairs Peer Review Neutrality Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires conflict-free peer review procedures for Veterans Health Administration quality-management reviews.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans and VA clinicians gain a peer-review process that is more insulated from conflicts of interest and internal favoritism.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA medical facilities must impose recusals, create procedures, and use neutral committees at other facilities for certain reviews.
Key Provisions
- Requires individual reviewers and committee members to withdraw when they were directly involved in the care under review or cannot be objective.
- Requires each VA medical facility to create procedures and guidelines for neutral peer review when a reviewed provider sits on the facility's own committee.
- Adds the new section to chapter 73 of title 38.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires conflict-free peer review procedures for Veterans Health Administration quality-management reviews.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Affairs, Healthcare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires conflict-free peer review procedures for Veterans Health Administration quality-management reviews.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration care
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Veterans Health Administration medical facilities and peer review committees
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Boozman, and Ms. Slotkin) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
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Veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration care
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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