VA Data Transparency and Trust Act

The VA Data Transparency and Trust Act would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to issue annual reports to Congress containing anonymized datasets about how veterans' healthcare and benefits are delivered, who uses them, and how well the system performs. The bill aims to address a long-standing challenge: Congress has struggled to conduct meaningful oversight of the VA because it lacks reliable access to demographic, cost, utilization, and outcome data from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans Benefits Administration, unlike the Department of Defense and Medicare. If enacted, the bill would provide Congress and oversight agencies with better tools to evaluate VA program performance, estimate costs of proposed legislation, and ensure veterans receive appropriate care—while protecting individual veterans' privacy through anonymization. The bill is currently under committee consideration and has not yet been voted on by the full House.