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Managerial Cost Accounting System

<p>VA's Managerial Cost Accounting System is the designated Managerial Cost Accounting (MCA) System of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This system is the Department's only means of complying with Public Laws (e.g., PL 101-576 - the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990) that mandate the use of a MCA system that can assign costs to the product level. MCA cost data is used at all levels of the VA for important functions, such as cost recovery (billing), budgeting and resource allocation. Additionally, the system contains a rich repository of clinical information which is used to promote a more proactive approach to the care of high risk (i.e., diabetes and acute coronary patients) and high cost patients. The data in MCA is also used to calculate and measure the productivity of physicians and other care providers.</p>

Tags: accounting, billing, budget, finance, health, managerial, mca, mcas, patient, product, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 16, Percentage of Service-Connected Disable Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Disability Rating

Percentage of Service-Connected Disable Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Disability Rating, FY 2018. Data underlying the third figure of Part 3 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Tags: utilization, veteran-benefits, veterans, veterans-benefits
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Community Residential Care Report

<p>The Community Residential Care Report is a listing of all facilities approved for residential care by the VA. These facilities are privately run operations not affiliated with the VA. They provide room, board, supervision, and other non-medical care to Veteran patients who cannot care for themselves but do not require the services of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). Information about these facilities is entered into the Fee Basis module of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) by every VAMC that has an agreement with a facility. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue and processed quarterly. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that are aligned with residential care facilities and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics &amp; Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, VA Central Office (VACO), and researchers interested in residential care information.</p>

Tags: approved, community, facilities, geriatrics, non-va-care, patient, residential, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Facilities API

Use the VA Facility API to find relevant information about a specific VA facility. For each VA facility, you'll find contact information, location, hours of operation and available services. For medical facilities only, we provide data on appointment wait times and patient satisfaction. The documentation is hosted by Lighthouse, a Veteran-centered API platform for securely accessing VA data.

Tags: api, api-documentation, facilities, facility, lighthouse, open-data, va-facilities
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Care Cost Recovery National Database (MCCR NDB)

<p>The Medical Care Cost Recovery National Database (MCCR NDB) provides a repository of summary Medical Care Collections Fund (MCCF) billing and collection information used by program management to compare facility performance. It stores summary information for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) receivables including the number of receivables and their summarized status information. This database is used to monitor the status of the VHA's collection process and to provide visibility on the types of bills and collections being done by the Department. The objective of the VA MCCF Program is to collect reimbursement from third party health insurers and co-payments from certain non-service-connected (NSC) Veterans for the cost of medical care furnished to Veterans.  Legislation has authorized VHA to: submit claims to and recover payments from Veterans' third party health insurance carriers for treatment of non-service-connected conditions; recover co-payments from certain Veterans for treatment of non-service-connected conditions; and recover co-payments for medications from certain Veterans for treatment of non-service-connected conditions. All of the information captured in the MCCR NDB is derived from the Accounts Receivable (AR) modules running at each medical center. MCCR NDB is not used for official collections figures; instead, the Department uses the Financial Management System (FMS).</p>

Tags: account, care, cost, health, insurance, medical, receivables, recovery, third-party, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Surgery Risk Assessment (SRA) Database

<p>The Surgery Risk Assessment (SRA) database is part of the VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP). This database contains assessments of selected surgical operations performed at Veteran Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). Addition to the SRA database requires that the surgery is Major (as defined by the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes assigned to the surgery), it must not be cardiac related, and it may not be concurrent with another surgery. Frequently performed other types of surgeries may also be excluded. Nurse reviewers at VAMCs gather the information from surgical data located in the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) environment. Information is also collected from pre-and post-operative charts and from interviews with patients. This information is entered into VistA and transmitted daily by a batch process to the Hines Office of Information &amp; Technology (OI&amp;T) Field Office. While the database has been in operation since 1995, the system only contains data for the current fiscal year. The data from previous fiscal years is archived if later retrieval is needed. Valid transmissions are sent to the VASQIP office at Denver for analysis. Information from non-assessed surgeries is transmitted from the VAMCs to the Hines OI Field Office monthly. This is also passed along to VASQIP at Denver. The users of this database include the VASQIP Executive Board.</p>

Tags: assessment, improvement, operative, patient, quality, surgery, surgical, va, vasqip, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Contract Administration Management System (CAMS)

<p>The Contract Administration and Management System (CAMS) is a data management system designed specifically for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Facilities Management (FM) for the management of contract and funding data. It provides a means of sorting and tracking data related to major Architect-Engineer and construction contracts such as contract type, project locations, project status, and contract funding.</p>

Tags: architect, construction, contract, engineer, facilities, management, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW)

<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is increasingly dependent upon data.  Most of its employees generate and use vast amounts of data on a daily basis.  To improve our capacity for data analysis while providing the most efficient and the highest quality health care to our Veteran patients, VHA, working with the VA Office of Information and Technology, implemented a health data warehouse.  Central to this plan is consolidating data from disparate sources into a coherent single logical data model.  The Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) is the physical implementation of this logical data model at the enterprise level for VHA.   Although the CDW initially began to store data as early as 2006, a renewed effort began in 2010 to accelerate CDW's content by including more subject areas from Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) and content from other existing national data systems.  CDW supports fully developed subject areas in its production environment as well as supporting rapid prototyping by extracting data directly from source systems with very minor data transformations.  The Regional Data Warehouses and the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) Data Warehouses share content from CDW and allow for greater reporting flexibility at the local level throughout the VHA organization.</p>

Tags: domain, health, sql, va, veteran, visn, vista, warehouse
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Community Nursing Home (CNH)

<p>The Community Nursing Home (CNH) database contains a list of all Community Nursing Home facilities under local contract to Veterans Health Administration (VHA). CNH facilities are not managed by VA. Instead, CNH facilities are private or public facilities licensed by the state where they provide the patient services. Each day all Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) that have a contract with a CNH enter information about the CNH into the Fee Basis module of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue. A quarterly batch process is run on the queue. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that have contracts and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to the CNHs, VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics &amp; Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, and VA Central Office (VACO).</p>

Tags: community-living-center, contract, extended-care, fee, geriatrics, non-va-care, nursing-home, patient, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Non-VA Care Medical System (Fee)

<p>The Non-VA Care Medical and Pharmacy System (FEE) automates the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Fee for Service program. It authorizes and pays private physicians, hospitals, and pharmacists for products and services provided to Veterans approved for the program. Veterans are reimbursed through VistA Fee for medically-related expenses including travel. Information is entered into the VistA Fee system through Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) online menus. VistA Fee is run at the Austin Information Technology Center and interfaces with the Financial Management System (FMS), the Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator System (BIRLS), and the VHA Work Measurement database (VWM), to produce payments, accounting updates, and reports. VistA Fee facilitates money management, master record updating, and input error resolution. Daily reports indicating all payments processed and erroneous input transactions are transmitted to approximately 170 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). Letters are sent to Veterans on a monthly basis detailing payments made on their behalf to Non-VA Care Service providers. Monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports are sent to the Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) and VAMCs. The Non-VA Care Fee Basis Medical System is commonly referred to as Central FEE.</p>

Tags: basis, central, community, fee, inpatient, nva, outpatient, patient, pharmacy, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Gulf War Registry (GWR) - The Post-Deployment Health Strategic Healthcare Group (PDHSHG) Registry System of Records

<p>The Post-Deployment Health Strategic Healthcare Group (PDHSHG) Registry System of Records is the information system encompassing the Ionizing Radiation Registry (IRR), the Agent Orange Registry (AOR), and the Gulf War Registry (GWR) which also includes related Depleted Uranium (DU) exams.</p>

Tags: gulf, health, kuwait, registry, va, veteran, war
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VHA Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD (Prior Executive Information System (EIS)))

<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD) has 36 separate databases that contain information on people, positions, and organizations, work groups, workforce, workforce and leadership classes, workforce development programs and participation, personal development plans, supervisory levels, mentor and coach attributes, High Performance Development Model (HPDM) core competency, intern data, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting, succession planning, workforce planning, senior executive information, applicant tracking and recruitment, Executive Career Field (ECF) position and performance information, and education funding and programs. The VHA Executive Management Program consists of the functions that fall under the purview of the VHA Executive Resources Board (ERB) and the VHA Performance Review Board (PRB). Their functions include executive development, recruitment and placement, organizational analysis, succession planning, workforce planning, EEO and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) assessment, workload tracking and reporting of human capital and HR, and individual and organizational performance assessment and recognition. The method used to collect this information is a proprietary system using relational database technology. Information from these databases are joined and expanded to inform programs and processes. This combination of information is used in the administration of talent management, VHA human capital objectives, and in the support of the ERB and PRB functions.</p>

Tags: capital, eeo, employee, employment, equal, human, leadership, opportunity, people, resources, supervisor, va, veteran, workforce
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Synthetic Cohort for VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge

The dataset is a synthetic cohort for use for the VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge. The dataset was generated using Synthea, a tool created by MITRE to generate synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) from curated care maps and publicly available statistics. This dataset represents 147,451 patients developed using the COVID-19 module. The dataset format conforms to the CSV file outputs. Below are links to all relevant information.

PrecisionFDA Challenge: https://precision.fda.gov/challenges/11
Synthea hompage: https://synthetichealth.github.io/synthea/
Synethea GitHub repository: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea
Synthea COVID-19 Module publication: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7531559/
CSV File Format Data Dictionary: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/CSV-File-Data-Dictionary

Tags: covid-19, crowdsourcing, data-science-challenges, electronic-health-record, precisionfda
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
FY 2020 Total Number of Veterans, Veteran VA Users, and Veteran VA Healthcare Users by Ethnicity

Note: "Total Number of Veterans" represents FY 2020 projected Veteran counts from VA's Veteran Population Projection Model 2018 (VetPop18). These projections are made with the assumption that Veterans are not missing information (e.g. ethnicity, etc.).
Note: "Veteran VA Users" and "Veteran VA Healthcare Users" represent historical Veteran counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2020 (USVETS 2020).
Note: "Veteran VA Users" includes Veteran users of VA healthcare or any other VA benefit or service.

Sources: USVETS 2020 and VetPop18

Tags: ethnicity, fy-20, fy-2020, fy20, fy2020, health-care, healthcare, race, va-health-care, va-healthcare, va-user, va-users, veteran, veteran-health-care, veteran-healthcare, veteran-user, veteran-users, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Nursing Home Compare

<p>Nursing Home Compare has detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid nursing home in the country. A nursing home is a place for people who can’t be cared for at home and need 24-hour nursing care.  These are the official datasets used on the Medicare.gov Nursing Home Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services. These data allow you to compare the quality of care at every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country, including over 15,000 nationwide.</p>

Tags: analytics, compare, health, healthcare, nursing-home, performance, quality, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Environmental Agents Service (EAS) Registry System of Records

<p>The Environmental Agent Service (EAS) Registries is the information system encompassing the Ionizing Radiation Registry (IRR), the Agent Orange Registry (AOR), and the Gulf War Registry (GWR) which also includes related Depleted Uranium (DU) exams.  These registries were originally developed using paper code sheets that were sent to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where typists converted to data files on the mainframe. The Registries have undergone a modernization and simplification effort that allows the entry of data via a web interface at <a href="https://vaww.registries.aac.va.gov/eas/">https://vaww.registries.aac.va.gov/eas/</a> by staff at the VA medical centers. In compliance with the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA) this is considered a single system of records with the three registry components i.e. IRR, AOR, GWR with DU that have been integrated into a single Oracle database.  Please see individual Monograph entries for specific details on:  Ionizing Radiation Registry (IRR), Agent Orange Registry (AOR), and the Gulf War Registry (GWR).</p>

Tags: agent, agent-orange, depleted, du, gulf, orange, radiation, registry, uranium, va, veteran, war
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA-OHE-NVHER-FY13-Diagnoses-Age

A subset of the FY13 National Veteran Health Equity Report, filtered by age group.

The National Veteran Health Equity Report details patterns and provides comparative rates of health conditions for vulnerable Veteran groups. Specifically, this report is designed to provide basic comparative information on the sociodemographics, utilization patterns and rates of diagnosed health conditions among the groups over which the VHA Office of Health Equity (OHE) has responsibility with respect to monitoring, evaluating and acting on identified disparities in access, use, care, quality and outcomes. The report allows the VA, Veterans, and stakeholders to monitor the care vulnerable Veterans receive and set goals for improving their care.

Tags: age, demographics, ethnicity, geography, health, health-equity, mental-health, ohe, patient, race, registry, sex, utilization, va, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Services Training Report (HST) Database

<p>The Health Services Training Report (HST) Database tracks the overall number of Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data Systems (PAID) and Without Compensation (WOC) Trainee positions by the cooperating academic institutions for all medical center approved health services programs. Information in the database comes from all Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) who have Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) approved HST programs. Worksheets and memos are distributed to participating VAMCs by the OAA annually. VAMC personnel enter the information electronically into the database located at the OAA Support Center (OAASC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The main user of this database is the OAA.</p>

Tags: academic, affiliations, employee, paid, va, veteran, without-compensation, woc
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Consolidated Copayment Processing Center (CCPC)

<p>The Consolidated Copayment Processing Center (CCPC) database contains Veteran patient contact and billing information in order to support the printing and mailing of patient billing statements. The CCPC system is designed to handle first-party medical debt billing information. First-party billing is defined as a patient debt for which the patient is responsible for payment (normally co-payment) for health care treatment. This differs from third-party billing where a third party (e.g., insurance company, Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)) is primarily responsible for repaying the VA. CCPC does not handle third-party billing information. The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture Accounts Receivable (AR) module collects information for CCPC at every Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). A daily batch process is used to collect and transmit the information to the VA Austin Information Technology Center. All collected patient and billing information is kept active on CCPC for a period of one month. A master list containing six months activity is archived for reference should historical information be needed. The users of this database include the VAMCs, Veterans Health Administration Chief Business Office, and the patients who receive billing statements.</p>

Tags: bill, billing, debt, first-party, hmo, insurance, medical, patient, payment, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veteran Farmer Counts and Percentages in California Counties (2015)

The Office of Data Governance and Analysis (DGA) creates statistical data for various Veteran related projects. This table displays the count and percent, by county, of Veterans who are farmers and/or dairymen comparative for the entire state's population of Veteran farmers or dairymen in California for 2015. The data was created from our administrative database U.S. Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics (USVETS), for the recent event Apps for Ag Hackathon.  


The U.S. Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics (USVETS) is the single integrated dataset of Veteran demographic and socioeconomic data. It provides the most comprehensive picture of the Veteran population possible to support statistical, trend and longitudinal analysis. USVETS has both a static dataset, represents a single authoritative record of all living and deceased Veterans, and fiscal year datasets, represents a snapshot of a Veteran for each fiscal year. USVETS consists mainly of data sources from the Veterans Benefit Administration, the Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Defense’s Defense Manpower Data Center, and other data sources including commercial data sources. This dataset contains information about individual Veterans including demographics, details of military service, VA benefit usage, and more. The dataset contains one record per Veteran. It includes all living and deceased Veterans. USVETS data includes Veterans residing in states, US territories and foreign countries. VA uses this database to conduct statistical analytics, predictive modeling, and other data reporting. USVETS includes the software, hardware, and the associated processes that produce various VA work products and related files for Veteran analytics.

Tags: rural-veterans, veterans-farmer
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Gulf War - Pre 9/11 Veterans: Trends in Cumulative Users by VA Program

This data set consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2005 - FY 2019, and reports the number and percent of users each of seven VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. The denominator of percent is the number of living Veterans in the FY. The number and percent of users is cumulative since FY 2005. Thus, for example FY 2006 data includes all Veterans who served in the era, were alive at some time during FY 2006 and participated in the program at any time during FY 2005 and FY 2006.

Tags: cemetery, disability-compensation, disability-pension, gulf-war, health-care, healthcare, home-loan-guaranty, life-insurance, memorial, memorials, pension, veteran-population, veterans, veterans-affairs, veterans-data, vocational-rehabilitation, vocational-rehabilitation-services
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs