| | Following a USA TODAY investigation, two senators are introducing a bill that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to report disciplinary actions against medical providers to a national data base designed to prevent them from crossing state lines to escape their pasts and keep practicing. Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., seek to require the VA to report discipline within 30 days to state medical boards and bar the agency from purging negative records from clinicians' personnel files as part of severance deals. The USA TODAY investigation found the VA has for years concealed poor care and mistakes by its medical workers.
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